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.
Sources
- History of smallpox vaccination (who.int)
- https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014107688307600914 (journals.sagepub.com)
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01488.x (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
- https://cambridgeblog.org/2020/05/mozart-epidemics-and-hope/ (cambridgeblog.org)