16. How tall was Beethoven?

According to Schindler he was short, about 1.68 m. The report of the exhumation of 1863 shows that Schindler's guess was not bad. See: Bankl, Hans und H. Jesserer. Die Krankheiten Ludwig van Beethovens. Pathographie seines Lebens und Pathologie seiner Leiden. (Vienna, 1987).