Fragments of a skull believed to have been that of composer Ludwig van Beethoven have been donated to a university in Austria after spending decades in the United States.The pieces of bone were donated to the Medical University of Vienna by American businessman Paul Kaufmann, who discovered them in a safety deposit box in a French bank following his mother's death in 1990.It later emerged that the bones, which were contained in a tin faintly engraved with the word "Beethoven," had been acquired from the estate of his mother's great-uncle, Franz Romeo Seligmann.
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