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Aaron Kosminski (born Aron Mordke Kozmiński; 11 September 1865 – 24 March 1919) was a Polish emigrant in England who is a suspect in the Jack the Ripper case. Kosminski was a Jew who immigrated to England from Russian Poland in the 1880s and worked as a hairdresser in Whitechapel in the East End of London, where the murders were committed in 1888. From 1891, he was institutionalized 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 may have been suspected of the murders and the 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. In September 2014, author Russell Edwards claimed to have proved Kosminski's guilt using mitochondrial DNA evidence from a shawl he believed to have been left at a murder scene. His claim has not been published or verified by the peer-review process, and the methods and findings have been criticised. == Life == Aaron Kosminski was born in Kłodawa in Congress Poland, then part of the Russian Empire. His parents were Abram Józef Kozmiński, a tailor, and his wife Golda née Lubnowska.〔House, Robert (March 2006), "The Kozminski File", ''Ripperologist'', No. 65〕 In 1881, he immigrated to England, and embarked on a career as a barber in Whitechapel, an impoverished slum in London's East End that had become home to many Jewish refugees who were fleeing economic hardship in eastern Europe and pogroms in Tsarist Russia.〔Kershen, Anne J., "The Immigrant Community of Whitechapel at the Time of the Jack the Ripper Murders", in Werner, pp. 65–97; Vaughan, Laura, "Mapping the East End Labyrinth", in Werner, p. 225〕 His sister and two brothers also left Russia and lived in Whitechapel, and his widowed mother later emigrated and joined them there.〔Begg, pp. 269–273〕 On two occasions in July 1890 and February 1891, Kosminski was placed in Mile End Old Town workhouse because of his insane behaviour. On the second occasion, he was discharged to Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, where he remained for the next three years until he was admitted on 19 April 1894 to Leavesden Asylum.〔Colney Hatch Register of Admissions, quoted in Begg, pp. 269–270〕〔 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.〔Asylum case notes quoted by Begg, p. 270; Fido, p. 216 and Rumbelow, p. 180〕 The cause of his insanity was recorded as "self-abuse", which is thought to be a euphemism for masturbation.〔Lekh, S.K.; Langa, A.; Begg, P.; Puri, B.K. (1992), "The case of Aaron Kosminski: was he Jack the Ripper?", ''Psychiatric Bulletin'', vol. 16, pp. 786–788〕 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 . He died the following month, aged 53.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aaron Kosminski」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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