Google Doodles Dracula on Bram's Birthday
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| English: Bram Stoker (1847-1912), novelist born in Ireland, author of "Dracula" (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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Abraham "Bram" Stoker (born 8 November 1847 , died 20 April 1912 ) was an Irish writer. Best known for writing horror novel Dracula .
He was born 8 november 1847 in Clontarf in Ireland , a coastal village not too far from Dublin . Before he was eight years old he was sick and could neither stand up or walk on his own. This disease and helpless public was a traumatic experience that is also found in many of his books. Everlasting sleep and the resurrection from the dead is the key topics in Dracula, and was very important to him since he was bedridden for most of his life.
Not only was his illness, but even more his recovery, a mystery to doctors. After the illness, he grew and became a fairly normal young man, maybe even the athletics track and football star at the University of Dublin . He studied history, literature and physics at Trinity College . After completion of training, he was an ordinary bureaucrat, a job that never met him. So he started working as a journalist and theater critic for the newspaper The Evening Mail. His interest in the theater led to his lifelong friendship with actor Henry Irving .
Stoker married Oscar Wilde's former girlfriend Florence Balcombe in 1878 and moved with her to London , where he was chief of Irving's Lyceum Theatre . The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker. Through Irving Stoker became involved in sositeten in London. There he met including James McNeill Whistler and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He increased income by writing a lot of sensational novels, his most famous was the vampire horror novel Dracula (released in 1897 ). Parts of this story are added to the coastal town of Whitby , where Stoker lived for a while.
In 1890 Stoker met the Hungarian professor Arminius Vanbéry , who told him the legend of the Romanian prince Vlad Tepes , better known as Dracula. This person was later to vampire Count Dracula , who is the title character in Stoker's book Dracula. Just after Stoker began writing the book, which he completed seven years later. He did a thorough dive in the background material and studied long cultures and religions in the Balkans and the life of the historical figure Vlad Tepes.
Bram Stoker died 20 april 1912 and is buried at Golders Green Crematorium in London.
Works
Dracula
Lair of the White Worm
A Life of Irving
The Snakes Pass
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