In 1601, he was serving in the squadron of Captain Laymann zu Liebenau of the Madrucci Regiment, and was posted to Piadena, Italy. In late May he complained to his wife of pains in his belly, as if something was stirring within. An hour later he gave birth to a girl-child. His wife called the Captain. Thereupon he was examined and questioned. He confessed that he had always been half man and half woman, although raised as male. While in the Netherlands he had had sex with a Spaniard, and become pregnant, although he kept this secret.
Burghammer suckled the child, although he was able to do this with the right breast only. The child thrived. The priest christened the child with the name of Elizabeth, and put her out for adoption: several towns competed for the right to adopt her. The child was considered a miracle. The church granted Frau Burghammer a divorce in that Daniel’s ability to give birth was incompatible with the role of husband.
- Richard Wilmer Rowan. The story of secret service. Literary Guild of America, 1937: 698.
- George Tennyson Matthews. News and Rumor in Renaissance Europe The Fugger Newsletters.Capricorn Books, 1959: 247-8. Online.
- Anne Fausto-Sterling. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. Basic Books, 2000: 35.
Daniel Burghammer war Schneider und nicht Schmied. Eine geprüfte Neuveröffentlichung des Berichtes von 1601, der sich in der Nationalbibliothek in Wien befindet und die folgende Diskussion des Falles in einigen Veröffentlichungen des 17. Jahrhundert siehe: Hans-Peter Weingand: Die Schwangerschaft des Soldaten Daniel Burghammer. Zum Umgang mit Intersexualität in öffentlichen Diskursen um 1600, in: Invertito. 20. Jg./2018 Hamburg 2019, 122–137.
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