Word: welcker
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There are ample grounds to wonder. The genuineness of the skull so cherished by Goethe was first questioned in 1883, when an anatomist named Hermann Welcker claimed it didn't jibe with Schiller's death mask. Some 30 years later, in 1911, the mass gravesite was searched again, turning up 63 additional skulls. Another anatomist, August von Froriep, declared one of them to be Schiller's, and in 1914, it too was placed in the ducal vault...