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_aFeuerbach, Anselm, Ritter von, _d1775-1833 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aKaspar Hauser |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-08-21 | ||
| 508 | _aMarkus Brenner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net | ||
| 520 | _a"Kaspar Hauser : Beispiel eines Verbrechens am Seelenleben des Menschen" by Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach is a legal-psychological case study written in the early 19th century. It investigates the sensational appearance of the foundling Kaspar Hauser in Nuremberg, recording his condition, behaviors, and the documents and objects found with him. Through careful observation and legal reasoning, it contends that beyond unlawful imprisonment and exposure, a profound offense was committed against a human mind. The opening of the work recounts Hauser’s sudden arrival in Nuremberg: a staggering youth in peasant dress who could barely walk, repeated set phrases, refused meat and beer, ate only bread and water, and yet wrote his name clearly. Taken to the police tower, he is inventoried (ill-fitting clothes, devotional tracts, a rosary) and found with letters addressed to a cavalry officer and notes hinting at his supposed birth and soldier father; medical observations describe soft, blistered feet, unusual knees, and extreme sensitivity. His behavior is strikingly childlike—few words (calling people “boys” and all animals “horses”), terror of black animals, fascination with toy horses, astonishment at mirrors and music, and no grasp of religion—while the jailer Hiltel and visitors attest to his innocence and rapid, effortful learning. As crowds gather, Professor Daumer begins to teach him and the mayor Binder pieces together an initial narrative: lifelong confinement in a small dark room, fed bread and water (sometimes drugged), nails trimmed in sleep, a hidden keeper who guided his hand to write and later forced him to stand and walk, then carried him out and abandoned him in the city. Feuerbach frames this as aggravated unlawful imprisonment and life-endangering exposure, proposing a broader “crime against the soul.” The author’s first visit adds vivid details: hypersensitive eyes, facial tics under mental strain, third‑person self-reference, a strong preference for red, and a fierce, touching eagerness to learn and draw. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cAnsbach: J. M. Dollfuß, 1832 |
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| 653 | _aGermany -- Biography | ||
| 653 | _aHauser, Kaspar, 1812-1833 | ||
| 653 | _aSocial isolation | ||
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