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Dracula character
Abraham Van Helsing
Gender Male
Ethnicity Dutch
Occupation Physician/scientist/ vampire hunter
Allies Jonathan Harker
Quincy Morris
John Seward
Arthur Holmwood
Mina Harker
Enemies Count Dracula
First appearance Dracula
Created by Bram Stoker

Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula. Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary Antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. The Dutch people ( Dutch:) are the dominant Ethnic group of the Netherlands. A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health A scientist, in the broadest sense refers to any person that engages in a systematic activity to acquire Knowledge or an individual that engages in such practices A vampire hunter or vampire slayer is someone who specializes in finding and destroying Vampires In Dark Jonathan Harker is a fictional character and the Protagonist in the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker (though other productions show Quincey P Morris is a Fictional character in Bram Stoker 's novel Dracula. Dr John Seward is a Fictional character appearing in Bram Stoker 's 1897 novel Dracula. The Honourable Arthur Holmwood (later Lord Godalming) is a Fictional character in Bram Stoker 's novel Dracula. Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker is a Fictional character in Bram Stoker 's horror novel Dracula. Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary Antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912 was an Irish writer of novels and short stories who is best known today for his 1897 horror Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912 was an Irish writer of novels and short stories who is best known today for his 1897 horror Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary Antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.

Van Helsing is a Dutch doctor with a wide range of interests and accomplishments, partly attested by the string of letters that follows his name: "M.D., D.Ph., D.Litt., etc. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Post-nominal letters, also called " post-nominal initials " or " post-nominal titles " are letters placed after the name of a person to indicate that Doctor of Medicine ( MD or MD, from the Latin Medicinæ Doctor meaning "Teacher of Medicine" is a doctoral "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Doctor of Letters ( Latin: Litterarum doctor; DLitt; or Litt D , etc. " The character is best known as a vampire hunter, and the arch-enemy of Count Dracula. A vampire hunter or vampire slayer is someone who specializes in finding and destroying Vampires In Dark

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Name

The typically Dutch prefix "van" (which in Dutch usually is not capitalized) gives the name a Dutch appearance. Dutch names consist of one or several Given names and a Surname. Van is a Preposition in the Dutch language as well as in its daughter the Afrikaans language, meaning 'of' or 'from' Nevertheless, the surname "Van Helsing" does not exist within the Dutch language area. Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname [1] However, similar names such as "Hell", "van der Hell", "van Hell", "Helsen" and "Helsinger" do. Also, in Finland there are a few hundred people who have the last name "Helsing". In Finland this surname probably originates from the name of Finland's capital, Helsinki (Helsingfors in Swedish). This would seem to indicate that the doctor's ancestors emigrated to the Netherlands from a Nordic country, just as the Dutch surname, "van Praag," indicates ancestral emigrants from the city of Prague in what is now the Czech Republic. The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe called the Nordic region, consisting of Denmark, Finland, Iceland,

Also, the character uses German words instead of Dutch, such as "mein Gott" and "Toll", my God and "mad" respectively.

The character shares the same first name, Abraham, as the character's creator, Abraham "Bram" Stoker and his father, Abraham Stoker Senior. A name suffix, in the Western naming tradition follows a person’s full Name and provides additional information about the person

Dracula

In the novel, Van Helsing is called in by his former student, Dr. Seward, to assist with the mysterious illness of Lucy Westenra. Lucy Westenra is a Fictional character in the novel Dracula (1897 by Bram Stoker. Van Helsing's friendship with Seward is based in part upon an unknown prior event in which Van Helsing suffered a grievous wound and Seward saved his life by sucking out the gangrene. Please do not add warnings to this page about the pictures Wikipedia is not censored for taste and has a guideline preventing such warnings - WikipediaNo disclaimers in articles It is Van Helsing who first realizes that Lucy is the victim of a vampire and he guides Dr. Vampires are mythological or folkloric revenants who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living Seward and his friends in their efforts to save Lucy.

In the novel, from the annotations of Leonard Wolf, it is mentioned that Van Helsing had a son who died. Leonard Wolf is an author teacher and the father of Naomi Wolf. Van Helsing says that his son, had he lived, would have had a similar appearance to another character, Arthur Holmwood. Consequently, Van Helsing developed a particular fondness of Holmwood. Van Helsing's wife went insane after their son's death, but as a devout Catholic, he refuses to divorce her. Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". ("with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church's law, though no wits, all gone, even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife. . . ")

Van Helsing is one of the few characters in the novel who is fully physically described in one place. In chapter 14, Mina describes him as:

"a man of medium weight, strongly built, with his shoulders set back over a broad, deep chest and a neck well balanced on the trunk as the head is on the neck. The poise of the head strikes me at once as indicative of thought and power. The head is noble, well-sized, broad, and large behind the ears. The face, clean-shaven, shows a hard, square chin, a large resolute, mobile mouth, a good-sized nose, rather straight, but with quick, sensitive nostrils, that seem to broaden as the big bushy brows come down and the mouth tightens. The forehead is broad and fine, rising at first almost straight and then sloping back above two bumps or ridges wide apart, such a forehead that the reddish hair cannot possibly tumble over it, but falls naturally back and to the sides. This article is about people with red hair also sometimes called redheads Big, dark blue eyes are set widely apart, and are quick and tender or stern with the man's moods. "

Van Helsing's personality is described by John Seward, his former student, thus:

He is a seemingly arbitrary man, this is because he knows what he is talking about better than any one else. He is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day, and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Metaphysics is the branch of Philosophy investigating principles of reality transcending those of any particular science This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, and indomitable resolution, self-command, and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats, these form his equipment for the noble work that he is doing for mankind, work both in theory and practice, for his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathy. [Dracula, ch. 9]

In addition to this, Van Helsing has a well-developed, albeit ironic sense of humor. When Arthur Holmwood/Godalming mournfully proclaims that the transfusion of his blood into the dying Lucy made her truly his bride, Van Helsing laughs (though not in Arthur Holmwood/Godalming's hearing) and tells Jack Seward that if such is the case, both Van Helsing and Lucy are guilty of adultery. Arthur was not alone in donating blood; Seward, his friend Quincey Morris, and Van Helsing himself have done it as well.

Adaptations of the novel have tended to play up Van Helsing's role as the vampire expert, sometimes to the extent that it is depicted as his major occupation. In the novel, however, Dr. Seward is unaware of this side of his old friend, and requests Van Helsing's assistance simply because Lucy's affliction has him baffled and Van Helsing "knows as much about obscure diseases as any one in the world. "

Count Dracula, having acquired ownership of England’s Carfax Abbey through solicitor Jonathan Harker, moved to the abbey and began menacing England. Jonathan Harker is a fictional character and the Protagonist in the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker (though other productions show His victims included Lucy Westernra, who lived in Whitby. Whitby is a historic town and Civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire on the north-east coast of England. The aristocratic girl had suitors such as Jack Seward, Arthur Holmwood, and Quincy Morris, and had a friend in Mina Murray, Jonathan Harker’s fiancée. Jack Seward, who worked as a doctor in an insanity asylum - where one of patients, the incurably zoophagous Renfield, secretly served Dracula - contacted Van Helsing about Lucy Westernra’s peculiar loss of blood. This article is about the character in Bram Stoker's Dracula For the card game please see Renfield (card game. Van Helsing, recognizing the mark of the vampire, tried to save Lucy, but she died, returning as a vampire. Eventually, Van Helsing and Arthur destroyed the vampiric Lucy.

Van Helsing and his band of vampire hunters pursued Dracula back to Transylvania. Transylvania (Ardeal or ro ''Transilvania'' Erdély, see also other denominations) is a Central European region located in the eastern half of the Carpathian There, they chased him down and cornered him. Armed with knives, Jonathan Harker and Quincy Morris decapitated Dracula and impaled his heart. Dracula's body then crumbled to dust.

Later, Van Helsing took an elder's role in regard to the young Quincey Harker, who was the son of Jonathan and Mina.

Character inspirations

There are several possible sources for the character of Van Helsing as described by Bram Stoker. German historian Max Muller is one possible suggestion, as an early draft of Dracula features a version of Van Helsing called Max Windshoeffel. Another is Theodore Roosevelt's uncle, Robert Roosevelt, who was a popular author, of Dutch descent, a scientist, and broadly matched Stoker's description in image and character. Theodore Roosevelt (ˈroʊzəvɛlt October 27 1858 January 6 1919 also known as T Robert Barnwell Roosevelt also known as Robert Barnhill Roosevelt ( August 7, 1829 &ndash June 14, 1906) was a Congressman from New York (1871-1873 He was also a member of Stoker's group of friends, which included Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900 was an Irish Playwright, Novelist, poet and Author of Walter Whitman (May 31 1819 &ndash March 26 1892 was an American poet, Essayist journalist, and humanist. Arminius Vambery, a Hungarian professor who helped Stoker with his research into vampirism, is another likely source for at least part of the character. Ármin Vámbéry, Arminius Vámbéry born Hermann Bamberger, or Bamberger Ármin ( 19 March 1832, Dunaszerdahely &ndash

Another source of inspiration is probably Gerard van Swieten. Van Swietens career Van Swieten was born in Leiden. He was a pupil of Hermann Boerhaave and became in 1745 the personal physician of the Austrian Empress

A possible fictional role-model is Dr. Hesselius, an occult doctor, some of whose cases, including that of the vampire Carmilla feature in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 story collection In a Glass Darkly. Occult detective stories combine the genres of the Detective story with supernatural horror fiction " Carmilla " is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 &ndash 7 February 1873 was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five short stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, the year before his death

Film adaptations

Notable actors to have portrayed Van Helsing in film adaptations of Dracula include:

Cushing's character in the Hammer movies was named J. Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Van Helsing, as seen in Brides of Dracula. For the 1960 Hammer film see The Brides of Dracula The Brides of Dracula are three seductive female Vampires who make their first appearance in In the contemporary series of Hammer Dracula films the character of Van Helsing is named Lawrence Van Helsing and is seen in the prologue (set in 1872) of Dracula AD 1972. Dracula AD 1972 is a 1972 Hammer Horror film directed by Alan Gibson, written by Don Houghton and starring Christopher These movies had Dracula resurrecting in the 1970s, only to meet Lawrence Van Helsing's grandson, Lorimer Van Helsing, a "different" vampire hunter also played by Cushing. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. It is unclear in The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires if Cushing is playing Van Helsing or a descendant, though the 1904 setting suggests the former. The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, released in 1974, was very much a movie of its time (Since Horror of Dracula was set in 1885, a 19 year gap between the settings corresponds roughly with the 16 year gap between the films, and the consequent difference in Cushing's appearance matches the ageing Van Helsing would have undergone. ) However, the character is identified as Lawrence Van Helsing on the LP record of the movie, narrated by Peter Cushing and released to tie-in with the film's opening.

Van Helsing (2004)

Main article: Van Helsing (film)

Hugh Jackman played Gabriel Van Helsing, the eponymous hero of Van Helsing (2004), loosely based on Bram Stoker's character. Van Helsing is a 2004 American action / Horror film about Vampire hunter Gabriel Van Helsing, written and Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October, 1968) is an Tony Award -winning and Emmy Award -winning Australian Actor Gabriel Van Helsing is a Fictional character in the 2004 film Van Helsing, the animated prequel Van Helsing The London Assignment The name was changed from "Abraham" to "Gabriel" for two reasons: because the writer/director/producer, Stephen Sommers, did not feel that "Abraham" was an appropriate name for an action hero, and because Universal wanted copyright privileges to the character. Stephen Sommers (born March 20, 1962) is an American movie director / writer best known for the 1999 blockbuster The The name change is accounted for in the story of the film, in which it is implied that Gabriel Van Helsing is actually the Archangel Gabriel in human form. Gabriel ( Latin: Gabrielus; Greek:, Gabriēl; Arabic: جبريل Jibrīl or جبرائيل Evidence supporting this implication include Gabriel's memories of participating in ancient battles (including fighting the Romans at Masada in 73 A. Masada ( Hebrew מצדה pronounced Metzada, from מצודה metzuda, "fortress" is the name for a site of ancient Palaces and D. ), references to him as the "Left Hand of God" (traditionally an epithet of the angel Gabriel), and, according the the film's novelization, a triangular scar on his back (a possible indication that he once had wings). As a man, Gabriel hunts monsters for the Catholic Church, and in the movie is sent to Transylvania to kill Count Dracula. When he arrives, Dracula tells Gabriel that they have already met and have quite a history together. In the video game adaptation of the movie, it is suggested that they once fought for the same side, but eventually parted ways for an unknown reason (Dracula's story makes it seem as though Gabriel betrayed him, but since Gabriel cannot remember these events, Dracula's story may be biased and remains unconfirmed). At the movie's climax, Dracula reveals that it was Gabriel who killed him, leading him to make a Faustian bargain and become a vampire. A deal with the Devil, pact with the Devil, or Faustian bargain is a cultural motif widespread wherever the Devil is vividly present most familiar This ironic twist makes Gabriel Van Helsing the inadvertent creator of his own archnemesis.

Although it received generally negative reviews (sometimes criticized as a tactless, big-budget amalgamation of classic horror films) the film was much more of a box office success than it is typically given credit for, grossing $100 million+ in the U. S. and $350 million+ worldwide. It has since developed a small cult following.

References to Van Helsing in other media

Media involving descendants of Van Helsing

In addition to adaptations of Dracula itself, there have been numerous works of fiction depicting descendants of Van Helsing carrying on the family tradition.

Appearances in comics/manga

Tomb of Dracula

Dracula and Rachel Van Helsing
Dracula and Rachel Van Helsing

Abraham Van Helsing was also portrayed in the Tomb of Dracula Marvel series, which was based on the characters of Bram Stoker's novel, but the chronology slightly differs from Bram Stoker's. Tomb of Dracula is a horror Comic book series published by Marvel Comics from April 1972 to August 1979

His first appearance is in Dracula Lives #3, in which a first encounter between a younger Van Helsing and Dracula is set up. A few days after marrying a woman named Elizabeth, lawyers informed Van Helsing that he had inherited land from a distant relative in Wallachia. This article is about the region in what is now Southern Romania Traveling to Romania, Van Helsing had a long conference with some lawyers in Bistritz. Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania Bistriţa (Bistritz archaic Nösen; Beszterce is the capital City of Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Transylvania, Romania. Elizabeth went ahead to the manor to set it up for the night.

One lawyer whom Van Helsing talked to had a collection of Hun and Magyar artifacts, and Van Helsing lost track of the time studying them. The Huns were an early confederation of Central Asian equestrian nomads or semi-nomads with a Turkic core of aristocracy Hungarians (or Magyars, magyarok are an Ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. When he arrived at the manor, he found his wife missing, but did discover several corpses, with "XXX" burned underneath bite marks on their necks. Armed with a gun from his brother Boris, who lived in the U. S. , Van Helsing left, frantic.

Returning to Bistritz, a frenzied Van Helsing discovered the existence of the Children of Judas, a vampire coven that served Dracula. Bistriţa (Bistritz archaic Nösen; Beszterce is the capital City of Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Transylvania, Romania. He also discovered the location of the Grand Sabbath of the vampires. (Van Helsing assumed that the Children of Judas were human, and merely occultists rather than vampires. The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus (clandestine hidden secret referring to "knowledge of the hidden" ) He went there, and found Elizabeth bound on an altar with thirteen Children of Judas and Dracula present.

Armed, Van Helsing opened fire with normal bullets - only to see them have no effect. A group of priests and soldiers saved him, but they could not save Elizabeth. Van Helsing refused to allow Elizabeth’s corpse to be beheaded or staked. Reluctantly, they allowed Van Helsing to bury Elizabeth in the manorial vault - but informed him of what to do in three days. Standing watch in the vault, Van Helsing saw her return as a vampire. He destroyed her, and swore revenge against Dracula, setting the stage for his role in Stoker's novel.

In the twentieth century, Dracula, having undergone many deaths and returns over the years since his struggles with Van Helsing, traveled back in time to the 19th century via an enchanted mirror, attempting to prevent his destruction at the hands of Van Helsing. Instead of arriving before the staking, however, he arrived after, but still tried to kill Van Helsing. However, Van Helsing had left the area of the Borgo Pass and Castle Dracula. Tihuţa Pass (Pasul Tihuţa Borgo or Burgo) (el 1201 m is a high Mountain pass in the Romanian Bârgău Mountains (Eastern Carpathian

Dracula killed a young woman, and villagers stormed Castle Dracula. Dracula repulsed them, and then discovered that Frank Drake, one of his descendants, and Rachel Van Helsing, Abraham's great-granddaughter, had followed him from the 20th century. Determined to destroy Abraham Van Helsing, Dracula had a subordinate vampire named Lenore battle Drake and Rachel as he sought to find Abraham Van Helsing.

Dracula discovered Abraham Van Helsing’s lodgings elsewhere in Romania. Stunned and confused as he had just driven the stake through (the native temporal counterpart of) Dracula’s heart a short time ago, Van Helsing was unprepared to face the 20th century Dracula. However, Rachel Van Helsing saved her great-grandfather, forcing Dracula to flee. Dracula escaped back into the time stream, with Frank Drake, Rachel Van Helsing, and their ally Taj Nital in pursuit.

Abraham Van Helsing then trained Mina and Jonathan Harker’s son, Quincy, in vampire lore, but in 1899, thinking that by staking Dracula he had destroyed him for good, he received a rude surprise when Dracula returned years later and killed him.

Hellsing

Abraham Van Helsing has also made a cameo appearance in the Japanese manga Hellsing. ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly The first time he appeared in one of Alucard´s dreams, Van Helsing made many allusions to Dracula when referring to Alucard e. is a Fictional character in the ''Hellsing'' anime and manga series created by Kohta Hirano and is the main Protagonist of the ''Hellsing'' Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary Antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. g. "So what are you going to do now, No Life King?" At the end of this dream, Alucard seems to cry blood. The second time Van Helsing appeared as a silhouette after Alucard transforms into the "Count," this last one is the most direct reference to the novel in the manga, since this time besides Van Helsing, Alucard mentions Quincy Morris, Arthur Holmwood and Dr. Seward, although, mysteriously, not Jonathan Harker. He appeared for a third time in a flashback showing Alucard's previous deaths.

Apocalypse vs. Dracula

In the Marvel Comics miniseries X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula, Van Helsing joins forces with the immortal mutant Apocalypse and his worshipers, Clan Akkaba, in order to destroy Dracula, their common enemy. Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc Clan Akkaba is a Fictional Cult in the Marvel Universe. Created by Frank Tieri and Clayton Henry. It is noted that Van Helsing had encountered Apocalypse before and previously believed him a vampire. Even despite doing things that angered the mutant, Apocalypse allowed Van Helsing to live, in the end, as he knew that Van Helsing had aided him in his creed.

Parodies

Magnus Karlsson as assistant Hanovich and Kristian Sallbring as Dr Van Hälsingland
Magnus Karlsson as assistant Hanovich and Kristian Sallbring as Dr Van Hälsingland

Parodies of Dracula usually include a Van Helsing character. In many cases he gets to keep his name, but in others the name is changed as a part of the parodizing. Examples of this are:

External links

References

  1. ^ Dutch phone book, any of them. but my brother also has the name of van Helsing
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