tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post113653542858330478..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Mozart's skull and the DNA of the famousDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-8887179155903923942014-11-18T16:59:16.319+02:002014-11-18T16:59:16.319+02:00Not all were convinced : Herbert Ullrich, a forens...Not all were convinced : Herbert Ullrich, a forensic pathologist who has studied the skeletons of famous Germans and Austrians, said he was convinced the Mozart skull was of someone other than Mozart. "I examined a cast of the skull in 1999,” Ullrich said. “All the characteristics of the skull suggested it belonged to a woman“.<br /><br />Army Helps DNA Scientists Unravel Mozart Mystery: Department of Defense scientists at the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, a division of the Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Rockville, Md., were presented with a small tooth from the skull to be analyzed.<br />“Our results definitively refute that the skull is female,” said Parsons. “The skull is of a male. It was the powder located in the center of the tooth that the genetic material was gathered from. <br />“As forensic scientists, the only optimism you’re going to have is that you’ll find out the actual answer, no matter what that answer is,” Parsons said.( Ken Hall [Army News Service, 10 January 2006] http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,85019,00.html). <br />In conclusion: Herbert Ullrich was misleaded by the femine appearence of Mozart and the forensic anthropological identification is free from doubt, the Mozarteum skull belongs to Mozart.Pierre-François Puechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09457686427998935454noreply@blogger.com