Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - THE DEATH OF EMPEROR FREDERICK
BARBAROSSA (AD 1190): PHYSIOPATHOLOGICAL
AND PALAEOPATHOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
ON A CASE OF FATAL DROWNING DURING THE
3rd CRUSADE
AU  - Galassi FM
AU  - Di Fazio N
AU  - Varotto E
AU  -  Artico M
AU  - Savioli G
AU  - Piccioni A
AU  - Volonnino G
AU  -
D'Antonio G
AU  - Pellegrini L
AU  - La Via L
AU  - Maiese A
AU  - Percivaldi E
AU  - La Russa R
Y1  - 2025
VL  - 63
IS  - 1
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 0
EP  - 0
KW  - Drowning – River – Creek – Whirlpool – Hydrocution syndrome – Palaeopathology
KW  - Public health
N2  - 
N2  - In this case report the still unexplained death of the Mediaeval Emperor Frederick Barbarossa is examined
from a biomedical perspective using original historical sources and contemporary medical knowledge. Barbarossa’s
case also serves as an example and a wake-up call for public health authorities on the danger represented by the problem of drowning, with particular reference to drowning in rivers and whirlpool-caused deaths.
ER  -