Note 5 — FIRST PERIOD. FROM HIS BIRTH TO THE YEAR 1800.
Reading edition
Dr. Wegeler published in consequence a copy of Beethoven's baptismal register, which is as follows:—
"Extract, Church Register, St. Remigii, at Bonn.
"Anno millesimo septingentesimo septuagesimo, die decima septima Decembris, baptizatus est Ludovicus, Domini Johannis van Beethoven et Helenae Keverichs, conjugum, filius legitimus: Patrini: Dominus Ludovicus van Beethoven, et Gertrudis Müllers, dicta Baums.
"Witness to the truth of the above extract,
"THE BURGOMASTER. (Signed) "WINDECK.
"Bonn, 28th June, 1827."