Editing Kaspar Hauser (section)

=== Evidence uncovered in the 1870s ===
In 1876, Otto Mittelstädt presented evidence against the hereditary prince theory, with official documents concerning the infant prince's emergency baptism, autopsy and burial.<ref>Otto Mittelstädt, ''Kaspar Hauser und sein badisches Prinzenthum'', Heidelberg 1876.</ref> In his ''Historical Mysteries'', [[Andrew Lang]] summarises the results:<blockquote>"It is true that the Grand Duchess was too ill to be permitted to see her dead baby, in 1812, but the baby's father, grandmother, and aunt, with the ten Court physicians, the nurses and others, must have seen it, in death, and it is too absurd to suppose, on no authority, that they were all parties to the White Lady's plot."<ref>Andrew Lang, ''Historical Mysteries'', 1905</ref> </blockquote>

Historian Fritz Trautz went so far as to write that, "The silly fairytale, which to this day moves many pens and has found much belief, was fully disproved in Otto Mittelstädt's book."<ref>Fritz Trautz 1974, p.&nbsp;723</ref> Letters of the Grand Duke's mother, published in 1951, give detailed accounts of the infant prince's birth, illness and death, which would also disprove the hereditary prince theory.<ref>[[Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1886–1970)|Adalbert Prinz von Bayern]]: ''Königin Caroline von Bayern und Kaspar Hauser'', in: Der Zwiebelturm 1951, pp.&nbsp;102–107 and 121–128.</ref>