It is said that when he was ten months old, he could speak German. He read the Pentateuch at age one, and between the ages of two and three, he read the Old and New Testament in Latin. When he was three years old, he was said to have recited his own History of Denmark when visiting the King of Denmark. Also at three, he testified in court to the murder of his friend, another boy named Reid. He died at age four of celiac disease. He was breastfed until close to his death, which was very likely caused by the ingestion of grain products.
