Aaron Kosminski Death
Aaron passed away on March 24, 1919 at the age of 54 in Leavesden Asylum, Abbots Langley, England, UK.
When did Aaron Kosminski die?
March 24, 1919How old was Aaron Kosminski when died?
54Where did Aaron Kosminski die? What was the location of death?
Leavesden Asylum, Abbots Langley, England, UK
Aaron Kosminski Birthday and Date of Death
Aaron Kosminski was born on September 11, 1864 and died on March 24, 1919. Aaron was 54 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: September 11, 1864
Date of Death: March 24, 1919
Age at Death: 54
Is Aaron Kosminski's father, Abram Jozef Kozminski, dead or alive?
Abram Jozef Kozminski's information is not available now.
Is Aaron Kosminski's mother, Golda Lubnowska, dead or alive?
Golda Lubnowska's information is not available now.
Aaron Kosminski - Biography
Aaron Kosminski was a Polish emigrant in England who is a suspect in the Jack the Ripper case. Kosminski was a Polish Jew who emigrated from Congress Poland to England in the 1880s. He worked as a hairdresser in Whitechapel in the East End of London, where a series of murders ascribed to the Ripper were committed in 1888. From 1891, he was institutionalised in an insane asylum.
Police officials from the time of the murders named one of their suspects as "Kosminski" (the forename was not given), and described him as a Polish Jew in an insane asylum. Almost a century after the final murder, the suspect "Kosminski" was identified as Aaron Kosminski; but there was little if any evidence to connect Aaron Kosminski with the same Kosminski who was suspected of the murders and their dates of death are different. Possibly, Kosminski was confused with another Polish Jew of the same age named Aaron or David Cohen (real name possibly Nathan Kaminsky), who was a violent patient at the same asylum.
On 12 July 1890, Kosminski was placed in Mile End Old Town workhouse because of his insane behaviour, with his brother Woolf certifying the entry, and was released three days later. On 4 February 1891, he was returned to the workhouse, possibly by the police, and on 7 February, he was transferred to Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum. A witness to the certification of his entry, recorded as Jacob Cohen, gave some basic background information and stated that Kosminski had threatened his sister with a knife. It is unclear whether this meant Kosminski's sister or Cohen's.
Kosminski remained at the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum for the next three years until he was admitted on 19 April 1894 to Leavesden Asylum. Case notes indicate that Kosminski had been ill since at least 1885. His insanity took the form of auditory hallucinations, a paranoid fear of being fed by other people that drove him to pick up and eat food dropped as litter, and a refusal to wash or bathe. The cause of his insanity was recorded as "self-abuse", which is thought to be a euphemism for masturbation. His poor diet seems to have kept him in an emaciated state for years; his low weight was recorded in the asylum case notes. By February 1919, he weighed just 96 pounds (44 kg). He died the following month, aged 53.
