Beethovens vader zwart?
Deze intuitieve begaafdheid wordt in de docu toegeschreven aan melanine, omdat Beethovens vader zwart was (vandaar zijn krullerige haardos). Ik heb geen idee waar ik het aan te danken heb
OK, let's get our facts straight here: Beethoven was not a 'Black' man. Punctum finalis.
As a starter - and only as a starter - please read this: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_Beethoven_... and this: http://open.salon.com/blog/ronp01/2009/0... (whole thread is most interesting) - and you'll see why that 'African' ancestry about Beethoven just doesn't hold water.
And by the way, Maria Magdalena Keverich - Beethoven's mother - was probably (''probably'' here means less than a one-in-four chance) of Moorish ancestry... not Scottish ancestry of course...
"Some people" are talking out of the wrong bodily orifice. Except in the sense that because humankind originated in Africa, everyone in the world is related to everyone else, and therefore everyone has black ancestry. Even if one of Beethoven's several-greats ancestors had dark skin, so what?
In my experience, people who advance this sort of argument are usually pursuing a racist agenda of some sort. A couple of times, I've had to complete a legal document that required me to specify my race. The question annoyed me so intensely that I wrote "human (mongrel)" - rather than white, or Caucasian, or something. No-one complained.
At the time, there were many Scottish people whose skin was a shade darker than that of most other Europeans, and that was true in Beethoven's case.
If I recall correctly, Beethoven had Scottish ancestry on his mother's side and Dutch ancestry on his father's side.
PS Here are Websites which say that Beethoven was of Belgian ancestry:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_the_...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_Beethoven_...
Johan van Beethoven de vader van Ludwig van Beethoven:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_van_Beethoven
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven