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Employees had taken life-saving measures and had him taken to hospital. There he was pronounced dead. Authorities initially gave no information about the cause of death.

The former Harvard graduate and declared enemy of technology killed three people and injured 23 others in a series of bombings between 1978 and 1995. According to a psychiatric report, he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was murdered out of an abysmal hatred of technological progress. His victims were mainly employees of universities (Un) and airlines (Airlines – A) – hence the term “Unabomber”.

Recently, according to authorities, Kaczynski was placed in a medical ward of a North Carolina detention center. He was previously held in a maximum security prison in Colorado.

Kaczynski was considered a very talented and mathematical prodigy. At the age of 16, he began studying at the elite Harvard University. He later became a professor of mathematics himself. However, Kaczynski broke off his academic career early and in 1971 retired to a lonely cabin in the mountains of Montana, where he lived like a hermit without running water or electricity.

He wrote his aversion to technological progress in a manifesto that he sent to two well-known American newspapers. In it he said that the attacks he had carried out were “extreme but necessary”. For 18 years he was one of the most wanted people in the United States. He was caught in 1996 after his brother betrayed his hideout in Montana. He was later sentenced to life imprisonment.

In a 1999 interview with Time magazine while in prison, Kaczynski said he would rather have been sentenced to death than to life imprisonment. He accused his brother of handing him over to the police after 18 years underground. “He knows very well that imprisonment is an unspeakable humiliation to me and that without hesitation I would have preferred to die.”

The story of the Unabomber was adapted by Netflix in 2017 and featured in the first season of the series Manhunt, bringing the case back to prominence. (con/sda/dpa)