{{Short description|American politician (1844–1906)}} thumb|185px|Lippert's "pitch card", with Eisenmann's photograph '''George Lippert''' (1844, Bavaria – July 1906, Salem, Oregon),<ref>[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72495259/george-lippert Entry] @ Find-a-Grave</ref> was born with three legs and, as was discovered during his autopsy, two hearts.<ref name="Hartzman">{{cite book|last=Hartzman|first=Marc|title=American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ruXJxuyNfgC&pg=PA59|accessdate=13 June 2018|year=2006|publisher=Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin|isbn=9781585425303|page=59}}</ref> He worked as a curiosity for nearly 50 years, many of them for P. T. Barnum.<ref name="Hartzman"/> Although he claimed that his third leg was fully functional until it was fractured in an accident, this has not been firmly established.<ref name="H" />
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.<ref name="H">[https://www.thehumanmarvels.com/george-lippert-three-legs-two-hearts/ Biography] @ Human Marvels</ref>
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".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/becker_eisenmann.htm#series6 |title=Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs |publisher=Syracuse University}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} histoire du 2 ème cœur est inventé selon des recherches plus approfondie le 2 ème cœur n'a jamais exister George Lippert vécu seulement avec 1 cœur Ce n'est QUN rajout de l'auteur de la biographie pour faire plus d'argent et fasciner les gens en Amérique.
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