Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — Nobleman Dies in Misery. [ARTICLE]

Nobleman Dies in Misery.

Albertus Linmmaier, a scion of a noble German family, died in Bellevue hospital on Tuesday after having lived for five years on a diet of bread and water. Lindmaier’s father was a general in the German army and one of his brothers is professor of languages in a German university. Lindmaier became estranged from his family and got but little of his mother’s large estate. A scholar, speaking ten languages, fitted to shine in almost any calling had it not been for his eccentricties, Lindmaier five years ago gave up a place he had with Delmonico’s, where he was a sort of superintendent, and thereafter took upon himself what he called a “penance,” sustaining his life solely on bread and water. Although wasted to a mere shadow, no amount of persuasion could make him change his mode of living. During the day he sat in the park reading. At night he slept in some Bowery lodging-house.