Five other locks of hair were authenticated, including another one recently acquired by San Jose State. Just not the one the university’s Beethoven center had proudly shown visitors more than…
SAN JOSE — Tristan Begg was an anthropology student at UC Santa Cruz and a Beethoven fanatic when he volunteered as a docent at San Jose State University’s Beethoven center in the summer of 2009.
Now, 14 years later, Begg, a Ph.D student at the University of Cambridge, is the lead author on a genome research study that debunked the story he once told. The hair is a fake. “The project was a very sobering experience in learning not to trust your gut,” Begg said in a phone interview Thursday from England, describing his disappointment over the lost link to the lock — and why he has started listening to the Ghostbusters theme instead of his favorite symphonies. “Just go on the data, and it’s much less fun that way.”
And Russell Martin, the author of “Beethoven’s Hair,” which focused on the San Jose State specimen and was translated into 19 languages, may have to update his 2000 tome.at San Jose State University has been unmasked: Fragments of a skull believed to belong to Beethoven were discredited in 2016. Ferdinand Hiller was an aspiring musician and just 15 when he clipped the maestro’s hair the day after his death. Hiller gave it to his son, Paul, who in 1911 supposedly transferred it to a new reliquary.
In 2014, Begg was a grad student studying geometric morphometrics at the University of Tubingen in Germany looking for a research project. As a student in the Ancient DNA department, he came up with a plan.
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