EAR PIECES: Businessman Gives Pieces Of Beethoven's Skull To Austria After His Family Brought Them To USA While Fleeing Nazis

Image shows the skull fragments, undated photo. US businessman Paul Kaufmann donated the fragments, presumed to be from Ludwig van Beethoven, back to Austria. Note: Licensed content. (Medical University of Vienna, APA photo service, Hoermandinger/Newsflash) Image shows the skull fragments, undated photo. US businessman Paul Kaufmann donated the fragments, presumed to be from Ludwig van Beethoven, back to Austria. Note: Licensed content. (Medical University of Vienna, APA photo service, Hoermandinger/Newsflash)
Copyrights: Medical University of Vienna, APA photo service, Hoermandinger/Newsflash

21 July 2023
An American-Jewish businessman has handed over pieces of Ludwig van Beethoven's skull to a university in Austria after he inherited them from his family. US businessman Paul Kaufmann donated the 10 fascinating skull fragments to the Medical University of Vienna, in Austria, for research...