Photo: Meet A Man With 3 Functional Legs And 2 Hearts

Photo: Meet A Man With 3 Functional Legs And 2 Hearts 

Meet a man who was born with three functional legs and two hearts. George Lippert (1842-1906) was born in Bavaria, Germany with two functioning hearts and three functioning legs.

His right leg was separated into two, one of which was normal-sized, club-footed with extra one toe making it six in number not proper for walking, and another one that was ill-shaped, ended in the shape of a knob and carried only three toes. 

Ironically he walked upon this second one in the manner of a peg leg. The only known images of him are pitch cards based on an illustration, so one cant precisely describe his physiognomy accorded with reality.

More to know about him;

George Lippert (1844, Bavaria – July 1906, Salem, Oregon), was born with three legs and, as was discovered during his autopsy, two hearts. He worked as a curiosity for nearly 50 years, many of them for P. T. Barnum.  Although he claimed that his third leg was fully functional until it was fractured in an accident, this has not been firmly established.

In 1898, he began facing competition from a three-legged boy, Sicilian-born Frank Lentini, who was touring with the Ringling Brothers Circus. By 1899 he was penniless, but found a benefactor in a florist named Mary Riggs, with whom he lived in his final years.

He died of tuberculosis in 1906.

The Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs, held by Syracuse University, includes a photograph of a painting titled "George Lippert three legged man".