2024-09-28
ENA first public
ERC000011
ENA-CHECKLIST
SAMEA111408268
External Id
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
INSDC center name
2022-09-28T15:10:29Z
INSDC last update
public
INSDC status
ERS13501933
SRA accession
HEB001
Submitter Id
Johann Valentin Schickh (1770-1835)
collected_by
human
common name
A lock of Beethoven’s hair cut after his death, between March 26th and March 28th, 1827, presumably by Johann Valentin Shickh, who was involved in organizing aspects of Beethoven’s funeral. On March 28th, this lock of hair was subsequently mailed to Johann Andreas Streicher, a London-based, Thuringian-born harp maker, by a mutual friend of Stumpff and Schickh, Johann Baptist Streicher. After acknowledging reciept of the hairs on April 16th, 1827, Stumpff mailed some or all of the hairs to the 13-year old Scottish orphan and inheritor of the Kippendavie branch of the Stirling family, Patrick Stirling. The hairs reportedly remained within the extended Stirling family’s collection until their acquisition by American Beethoven Society member, Kevin Brown, at auction at Sotheby’s in London, on November 29th, 2016.
description
Austria
geographic location (country and/or sea)
Homo sapiens
organism
Homo sapiens
scientific_name
Male
sex
Hair
tissue_type
Stumpff Lock
title