Bonn / Weimar - The mystery surrounding the authenticity of the Weimar Schiller bones, including skulls and lock of hair is dissolved. The sophisticated DNA tests showed that they do not come from Schiller.
However, the investigation concerning the authenticity of the remains of Schiller's wife and her son have left no serious doubt. In the grave in the Old Cemetery, near the tombs of Beethoven's mother, rest for two real Schiller.
Anthropologist Professor Ursula Wittwer-Backofen of the University of Freiburg and colleagues had Schiller's grave on 19 July last year opened (EXPRESS reported). The bones were found there of Charlotte von Schiller, and her second oldest son, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Schiller, were exhumed. The scientists took samples of the remains of DNA samples.
The exhumation was part of an international scientific project should be clarified with the whether the mortal remains can be attributed to Schiller, is currently assigned to doubt him.
Especially the investigation was assigned to Bonn for the final demonstration a key position.
Charlotte Schiller, Friedrich's wife, came to Bonn, where she was looking at the well-known ophthalmologist Professor Walther alleviation of years of eye trouble. Together with her daughter Emily, she lived in the Bonn Prince Street, right at the Electoral Palace, now the university. She died in Bonn on 9 July 1826.
Their son, Ernst von Schiller also lived in Bonn, where he died on 29 May 1841.
