Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was infected with smallpox at some point in his life.
Notes on verification
Corroborated by peer-reviewed medical history articles, primary source letters from the Mozart family, and multiple secondary historical accounts that converge on the same documentation. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=silver indep_score=0.983 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial on Mozart family correspondence (letters of Leopold and Nannerl Mozart) as compiled in the standard scholarly edition of Mozart's letters (upstreams: Leopold Mozart's letters, Nannerl Mozart's recollections, Bauer & Deutsch, 'Mozart: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen' (1962)) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high (extractor: empirical/medium)]
Sources
- History of smallpox vaccination (seed:anatomy_and_medical_oddities)
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014107688307600914 (corroboration)
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01488.x (corroboration)
- https://cambridgeblog.org/2020/05/mozart-epidemics-and-hope/ (corroboration)