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Kaspar Hauser
also: Kaspar Hauser, Kaspar
A mysterious German youth (c. 1812–1833) who appeared in Nuremberg in 1828 claiming to have been raised in total isolation, and was murdered five years later. His story became a Romantic emblem of the innocent destroyed by society. Trakl's 'Kaspar Hauser Lied' in Sebastian im Traum casts him as a figure of pure, doomed gentleness.
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- Sebastian in Dream §13 Kaspar Hauser
Kaspar Hauser (c. 1812–1833), a mysterious foundling who appeared in Nuremberg in 1828 claiming to have been raised in total isolation; he became a Romantic symbol of innocent nature confronting corrupt civilization and was murdered in unexplained circumstances.
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