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Ludwig van Beethoven's religious views was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 04 November 2011 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Ludwig van Beethoven. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

The contents of the Life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven page were merged into Ludwig van Beethoven on 2008-Jan-08. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

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Include Beethoven's Place of Birth to the Infobox

Beethoven was born in the Electorate of Cologne. Most articles of notable people include the country of birth alongside the city. It is a simple change and will improve the quality of the article if implemented. Is there an agreement? Nikolai Gennadievich Nazarov (talk) 01:13, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is not. See previous discussions (eg) for some of the reasons why. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:18, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There isn't actually any good reasons put forth by the people who discussed this. There should definitely be a more recent discussion regarding this issue. Nikolai Gennadievich Nazarov (talk) 01:30, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, let's see if anyone comes up with any good reasons for the proposed change. Nikkimaria (talk) 03:21, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Birthdate

Is this a reliable source for his birthdate? https://www.kennedy-center.org/artists/b/ba-bn/ludwig-van-beethoven/ GamerKlim9716 (talk) 22:48, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No. There is no author listed, and no scholarly sources cited for the claims it makes. Magic♪piano 00:56, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hair

As this is a vital article, wouldn't it be better to link to the actual study, rather than newspaper accounts of it? : https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00181-1 Additionally - and this may be a bizarre suggestion - since so much has been written about Beethoven's hair (including a full-length book), might that warrant a separate section or paragraph in the article? (True confession: I cataloged The New York Public Library's lock of Beethoven's hair.) - kosboot (talk) 13:01, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The study would be nice, maybe a sentence in the autopsy/sentence section... but I really don't think we should really be adding anything substantial to the already massive life section. We need to have as much room as possible for the music and legacy sections, which are currently missing huge amounts of information. – Aza24 (talk) 19:35, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Birthplace

Under the heading "Family and early life" in the second paragraph the address of his birth is listed as "Bonnstrasse", which is now the Beethoven House, while the text under the picture of the house says "Bonngasse". The latter is correct Wim (talk) 05:22, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

DNA

DNA study of LvB did not find any relatives in Benilux. --95.24.70.23 (talk) 20:22, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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