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Speculation Regarding the child Kaspar Hauser
Topic Started: Feb 5 2010, 05:05 PM (264 Views)
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Investigation and speculation regarding the mysterious child Kaspar Hauser has been renewed with the assertion that Kaspar may well have been the hereditary 'Prince of Baden'.

Kaspar Hauser mysteriously appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, Germany. He carried a letter with him addressed to the captain of the 4th squadron of the 6th cavalry regiment, Captain von Wessenig. Its heading read: "Von der Bäierischen Gränz daß Orte ist unbenant 1828" ("From the Bavarian border / The place is not named [sic] / 1828"). The anonymous author said that the boy was given into his custody, as an infant, on 7 October 1812, and that he had instructed him in reading, writing and the Christian religion, but had never let him "take a single step out of my house". The letter stated that the boy would now like to be a cavalryman; thus, the captain should take him in or hang him.

Hauser was not capable of extensive speech, but he could write and a story unwound that the mysterious child spent his life in a stone room with only a straw bed and wooden horse as his toy.

Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach initially began to investigate the case.

Hauser had several misfortune, including receiving a stab wound and apparent pistol wound at various times. Hauser was then fatally stabbed in a park in 14 December, 1833.

He was buried and forgotten, but new evidence may have come to light that the mysterious Kaspar Hauser was the hereditary prince of Baden who was born on 29 September 1812, and who, according to known history, had died on 16 October 1812. It was alleged that this prince had been switched with a dying baby, and had subsequently surfaced 16 years later as Kaspar Hauser in Nuremberg. In this case, his parents would have been Karl, Grand Duke of Baden, and Stéphanie de Beauharnais, cousin-by-marriage of Napoleon I of France.
Because Karl had no surviving male progeny, his successor was his uncle Ludwig who was later succeeded by his half-brother Leopold.
Leopold's mother, the Countess von Hochberg, was the alleged culprit of the boy's captivity. The Countess was supposed to have disguised herself as a ghost, the "White Lady", when kidnapping the prince. Her motive evidently would have been to secure the succession for her sons.

After Hauser's death, it was claimed further that he had been murdered, again because of his being the prince.

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