Georg carl tanzler autobiography

German-born American radiology technologist and erotomaniac

Georg Carl Tänzler, also known as Count Carl von Cosel (February 8, 1877 – July 3, 1952), was a German-born radiology technologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida.

He developed an obsession with a young Cuban-Americantuberculosis patient, Elena "Helen" Milagro de Hoyos (July 31, 1909 – October 25, 1931), that carried on well after her death.^[1] In 1933, almost two years after her death, Tanzler removed Hoyos' body from its tomb and lived with the corpse at his home for seven years until its discovery by Hoyos' relatives and authorities in 1940.^[2]

Early life

He was born as Karl Tänzler or Georg Karl Tänzler on February 8, 1877 in Dresden, Germany.

Tanzler grew up in the German Empire but, at some point, wound up in Australia just before the outbreak of World War I. The following "Editorial Note" accompanying the autobiographical account "The Trial