Was beethoven of mixed race

Answer 1

Possibly. Many Europeans of his time period had some African ancestry due to the Moorish incursion into Spain a century earlier. According to several attempts at Beethoven's biography, it could be discerned that he was born in Bon and that his father, was Flemish. His mother has been said was Moor. In Emil Ludwig's book Beethoven, Ludwig states, "His face reveals no trace of the German." In the Black Research Music Journal, author Dominique-Rene De Lerma committed an entire entry on the black ancestry of Beethoven titled Beethoven as a Black Composer. However, she essentially runs into the same obstacles that the rest of the researchers do. Nevertheless, according to africawithin.com, the famed and respected news magazine Newsweek ran an article, which question racial ancestry in the Sept. 23, 1991, issue, which had this quote, "Afrocentrism ranges over the whole panorama of human history coloring in the faces from Australopithecines to the inventors of mathematics to the great Negro composer Beethoven." In all published works, the only thing about Beethoven that remains constant is that he was a great musician

Answer 2

No, but the Russian author Pushkin was. Beethoven once made the remark- in claiming the unity of the Human Race we resist the unsavory notion of superior and inferior races. Adolf had different ideas!- as we all know. It is true that Pushkin was partly of Black Ethiopian ancestry.

Answer 3

No, he was born in Bonn, Germany

Answer 4

No she was not.