Study: Beethoven Hair Auctioned for Thousands May Not All Be His
Hair samples believed to be from Ludwig van Beethoven that were auctioned for high prices might not actually be his.
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Hair samples believed to be from Ludwig van Beethoven that were auctioned for high prices might not actually be his.
The prodigious composer had serious liver problems and a hepatitis infection sometime before he died in 1827.
Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven died, a team of researchers has managed to sequence the German composer’s genome from locks of his hair,
Hair samples believed to be from Ludwig van Beethoven that were auctioned for high prices might not actually be his.
Hair samples believed to be from Ludwig van Beethoven that were auctioned for high prices might not actually be his.