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Abraham Van Helsing
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fictional character created by Bram Stoker
Key facts
- Created by
- Bram Stoker
- Alias
- Van Helsing Doctor Van Helsing Professor Van Helsing
- Occupation
- Professor, Doctor, Lawyer, Philosopher, Scientist, Metaphysician, and Vampire hunter
- Religion
- Roman Catholic
- Nationality
- Dutch
- Birthplace
- Amsterdam , Netherlands
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Wikidata facts
- Given name
- Abraham
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Amsterdam
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Eye colour
- blue
- Hair colour
- red hair
- Creator
- Bram Stoker
- Performer
- David Warner
- Image
- Dracula1931EdwardVanSloan.jpg
- Residence
- Amsterdam
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- present in work
- Bram Stoker's Dracula
- honorific suffix
- Doctor of Letters
- student
- John Seward
- publication date
- 1897-00-00
- inspired by
- Ármin Vámbéry
- name in native language
- Abraham Van Helsing
- copyright status
- public domain
- Commons category
- Abraham van Helsing
- enemy
- Count Dracula
- date of birth
- 1900-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Professor Abraham Van Helsing ( Dutch: [ˈaːbraːɦɑɱ vɑn ˈhɛlsɪŋ]) is a fictional character from the 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula written by Bram Stoker. Van Helsing is a Dutch polymath 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.", 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 new stories about Van Helsing, while others, such as Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973), Dracula (2020) and I Woke Up a Vampire (2023) have characters that are his descendants.
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