2024-09-28
ENA first public
ERC000011
ENA-CHECKLIST
SAMEA111408270
External Id
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
INSDC center name
2022-09-28T15:10:29Z
INSDC last update
public
INSDC status
ERS13501935
SRA accession
HEB002
Submitter Id
Jeremiah Bermann (1770-1855)
collected_by
human
common name
A lock of Beethoven’s hair believed to have been acquired by Jeremias Bermann, who had published some of Beethoven’s works in 1821. The exact date of cutting is not known with certainty, and is tentatively estimated to be ca. 1821, contemporary with Jeremias’ interactions with Beethoven. On May 15th, 1851, American-born Beethoven biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer describes acquiring a lock of hair, as well as music manuscripts, from a “Mr. Bermann”, most likely Jeremias’ son, Joseph, who had by then taken over operations of his father’s business. These hairs remained within the Thayer family’s collections until their acquisition by members of the American Beethoven Society in July, 2017, as part of the “Thayer Collection”.
description
Austria
geographic location (country and/or sea)
Homo sapiens
organism
Homo sapiens
scientific_name
Male
sex
Hair
tissue_type
Bermann Lock
title