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Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey

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Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius by Colin Dickey

Author:Colin Dickey
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Non-fiction, Science, History
ISBN: 9781932961867
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Published: 2009-09-29T00:00:00+00:00


IT’S NOT CLEAR whether either Gerhard von Breuning or Romeo Seligmann was present for this second exhumation. It’s not clear whether, if they had been, they would have shared what they knew about the newly discovered missing portions of Beethoven’s skull, the occipital fragments. As he saw his own death impending, Beethoven had bitterly remarked to Dr. Wawruch that if anyone could save him from the oblivion of death “his name would be Wonderful!” He had been referring to the Messiah, but in a curious way his prophecy would yet come true: in 1863 persons unknown had kept out a few precious fragments of the composer’s skull—to save them from the oblivion of decay and disintegration—and given them to Dr. Romeo Seligmann, known to his friends simply as “Wonderful.”



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