Homo sapiens
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.
ENA first public
2024-09-28
External Id
SAMEA111408268
INSDC center name
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
INSDC last update
2022-09-28T15:10:29Z
INSDC status
public
Submitter Id
HEB001
collected_by
Johann Valentin Schickh (1770-1835)
common name
human
geographic location (country and/or sea)
Austria
sample name
HEB001
scientific_name
Homo sapiens
sex
male
tissue_type
Hair