Baron Trenck's Unraveled Secrets
Authors: Eva Maleckova
Read the closeread article: https://emaleckova.quarto.pub/baron-trencks-unraveled-secrets
Reproducible repo: GitHub - emaleckova/trenck-closeread: A scrollytelling about baron Trenck's life deduced from his mummified body
Abstract
This scrollytelling contribution describes the most interesting results of a multidisciplinary research project investigating an almost 300-year-old mummy of baron Franz von Trenck. He was a high military officer living in the first half of the eighteenth century. Baron's life and travels throughout Europe are discussed briefly. The major focus is on bits of information revealed by his mummy: from body height to medical issues and pieces of evidence explaining his talents for violin playing and fencing.