Identification of the cranium of W.A. Mozart

Author(s): Puech, B., Tichy, G.

Journal/Book: Forensic Sci Int. 1989; 41: 101-10.

Abstract: In 1801 at the cemetery in Vienna, Austria, the skull of W.A. Mozart was exhumed (La Chronique Medicale, 13 (1906) 423), and now it has been examined for identification. The osteometrical and osteological findings correspond with the available data of W.A. Mozart. Superimposition gives evidence that craniofacial distinctiveness of the cranium is consistent with the portrait. Additional individual particularities caused by the premature synostosis of the metopic suture (PSMS) and a bone lesion are described.

Keyword(s): Austria ; History of Medicine, 18th Cent.. Craniometry ; Famous Persons; Music history

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