biography
pronunciation:
[howzer]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1812–33)
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| biography:
| German foundling, a ‘wild boy’, found in the market place of Nuremberg in May 1828. Though apparently 16 years old, his mind was a blank, and his behaviour that of a little child. He later gave some account of himself, as having lived in a hole, looked after by a man who had brought him to the place where he was found. In 1833 he was discovered with a wound in his side, from which he died. Many have regarded him as an imposter who committed suicide: others, as a person of noble birth who was the victim of a crime. His mysterious life was celebrated in much imaginative literature. |
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