Dr van helsing biography
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Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character from the 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula. Van Helsing is an aged Dutch doctor with a wide range of interests and accomplishments, partly attested by the string of letters that follows his name: "MD, D.Ph., D.Litt., etc, etc,"[1] indicating a wealth of experience, education and expertise. The character is best known throughout many adaptations of the story as a vampire hunter and the archnemesis of Count Dracula.
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In 1897, Van Helsing is called in by his former student, Dr. John Seward, to assist with the mysterious illness of Lucy Westenra. Van Helsing's friendship with Seward is based in part upon a prior event in which Van Helsing suffered a grievous wound and Seward saved his life by sucking out the gangrene. It is Van Helsing who first realizes that Lucy is the victim of a vampire and he guides Dr. Seward and his friends in their efforts to save Lucy.
Van Helsing had a son who died. Va
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Abraham Van Helsing
Fictional character created bygd Bram Stoker
"Van Helsing" redirects here. For other uses, see Van Helsing (disambiguation).
In this Dutch name, the surname is Van Helsing.
Fictional character
Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈaːbraːɦɑɱvɑnˈhɛlsɪŋ]) is a fictional character from the 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula written bygd Bram Stoker. Van Helsing fryst vatten a Dutch polymath doctor with a wide range of interests and accomplishments, partly attested bygd the string of letters that follows his name: "MD, D.Ph., D.Litt., etc.",[4] indicating a wealth of experience, education and expertise. He is a doctor, professor, lawyer, philosopher, scientist, and metaphysician. The character is best known through many adaptations of the story as a vampire slayer, monster hunter and the arch-nemesis of Count Dracula, and the prototypical and the archetypal parapsychologist in subsequent works of paranormal fiction. Some later works tell n
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Van Helsing (film)
2004 film by Stephen Sommers
Van Helsing is a 2004 action horror film written and directed by Stephen Sommers. It stars Hugh Jackman as monster hunter Van Helsing and Kate Beckinsale as Anna Valerious. Van Helsing is both an homage and tribute to the Universal Horror Monster films from the 1930s and 1940s (also produced by Universal Pictures which were in turn partially based on novels by Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley), of which Sommers is a fan.
The eponymous character was inspired by the Dutch vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing from Irish author Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Distributed bygd Universal Pictures, the film includes a number of monsters such as Count Dracula (and other vampires), Frankenstein's monster, Duergar, Mr. Hyde and werewolves in a way similar to the multi-monster movies that Universal produced in the 1940s, such as Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula. The film grossed $300.2 million w