Was Ludwig van Beethoven Black?

Maybe. To European standards he was not, but to American standards maybe. One things is for sure: though Beethoven surely had a dark complexion, he didn’t have a black or brown skin, nor negroid features. On the contarary. His protraits shows a typical European face and so does a portraits of one his brothers and two portraits of his nephew Karl. His ancestors were partly Flemish (the Beethovens), partly German (the Keverichs). At first sight there is not the slightest trace of a proof for his “blackness”. We cannot exlude beyond any doubt that he had some drops “black’ blood in his veins. During the so-called 80 years war (1568-1648) Flanders and the southern part of the Netherlands were occpied by the spanish and a part of the Spanish army was ” Moorish”, as they called it in those days, which means from Northern Africa. So it’s not completely immpossible that one of those soldiers had been the cause of some African genes in the Beethoven family. What specifically is being referenced, is the true identity of Ludwig van Beethoven, considered Europe’s greatest classical music composer. Directly, Beethoven was a black man. Specifically, his mother was a Moor, that group of Muslim Africans who conquered parts of Europe–making Spain their capital–for some 800 years.

Reference information:

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