Beethoven’s skull bones returned to Vienna

In the spring, I posted on tests of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair to identify what physical ill(s) may have led to his death.

Now, a more substantial sample of his body – the so-called Seligmann fragments, bones believed to be part of Beethoven’s skull – have been donated to the Medical University of Vienna by Paul Kaufmann, a descendant of the Viennese doctor Franz Romeo Seligmann, who collected the bones in 1863 during disinterment and relocation of Beethoven’s remains.

The university plans to have researchers test the bone fragments, hoping to shed further light on Beethoven’s maladies and death in 1827, The Washington Post’s Adela Suliman reports:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/21/beethoven-skull-fragments-paul-kaufmann/