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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.^[sic], D.Litt., etc., etc." The character is best known as a vampire hunter. Post-nominal letters also called Post-nominal initials or Post-nominal titles are letters placed after the name of an individual to indicate that that individual holds a position, educational degree, accreditation, office, or honour. ... Doctor of Medicine (M.D. or MD, from the Latin Medicinae Doctor meaning Teacher of Medicine,) is an academic degree for medical doctors. ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ... For other uses, see SIC. Sic is a Latin word, originally sicut [1] meaning thus, so, or just as that. In writing, it is placed within square brackets and usually italicized — [sic] — to indicate that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, punctuation, and/or other preceding quoted material has been... Doctor of Letters (Latin: Litterarum doctor; D.Litt. ... A vampire hunter or vampire slayer is someone who specializes in finding and destroying vampires and sometimes other creatures of dark fantasy as well. ...

Name

Further information: Dutch name

The typically Dutch prefix "van" (which in Dutch usually is not capitalized) gives the name a Dutch appearance. Nevertheless, the surname "Van Helsing" does not exist within the Dutch language area.^{[citation needed]} 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. Dutch names consist of one or several given name(s) and a surname. ... van (sometimes pronounced von) is a common Dutch preposition meaning of or from, e. ... Dutch (  ) is a West Germanic language spoken by around 23 million people, mainly in the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname, but also by smaller groups of speakers in parts of France, Germany and several former Dutch colonies. ... Political map of the Nordic countries and associated territories. ...

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

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. 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. 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. Lucy Westenra is a fictional character in the novel Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker. ... Gangrene is the necrosis and subsequent decay of body tissues caused by infection or thrombosis. ... Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings that subsist on human and/or animal lifeforce. ...

In the novel, from the annotations of Leonard Wolf, it is mentioned that Van Helsing had a son who died. 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. ("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...") Leonard Wolf is an author, teacher and father of Naomi Wolf. ...

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. 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: Woman with red hair Man with red hair Red hair (also referred to as auburn, ginger, ranga or titian) varies from a deep orange-red through burnt orange to bright copper. ... This article is about the geographical distribution and social connotations of eye color in humans. ...

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. 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. For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... Plato (Left) and Aristotle (right), by Raphael (Stanza della Segnatura, Rome) Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the ultimate nature of reality, being, and the world. ...

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. His victims included Lucy Westernra, who lived in Whitby. 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. 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. Count Dracula is a famous fictional vampire, first appearing in Bram Stokers Gothic horror novel Dracula. ... Jonathan Harker is a fictional character in the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. ... , For other uses, see Whitby (disambiguation). ... Dwight Fry as Renfield in the 1931 adaptation of Dracula. ...

Van Helsing and his band of vampire hunters pursued Dracula back to Transylvania. 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. This article is about the region in Romania. ...

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. He was also a member of Stoker's group of friends, which included Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman. Arminius Vambery, a Hungarian professor who helped Stoker with his research into vampirism, is another likely source for at least part of the character. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. ... Robert Roosevelt Robert Barnwell Roosevelt (August 7, 1829 – June 14, 1906) was the uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt and the grand uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt. ... Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. ... Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. ... Armin Vambéry (19 March 1832-1913) was a Hungarian Orientalist and traveler. ...

Another source of inspiration is probably Gerard van Swieten. Gerard van Swieten on the memorial to Maria Theresia, Vienna Gerard van Swieten (May 7, 1700 – June 18, 1772) was an Austrian physician of Dutch origin. ...

A possible fictional source is a similar vampire-hunting paranormal expert, Dr. Hesselius, who appears in J. Sheridan Le Fanu's seminal 1872 vampire story Carmilla, as well as other supernatural tales by the same author. Paranormal is an umbrella term used to describe a wide variety of reported anomalous phenomena. ... Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (August 28, 1814 - February 7, 1873) was an Irish writer of short stories and novels concerning the strange and supernatural. ... Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu. ...

Film adaptations

Hugh Jackman as Gabriel Van Helsing

Notable actors to have portrayed Van Helsing in film adaptations of Dracula include: Image File history File links Vanhels2. ... Image File history File links Vanhels2. ...

• Edward Van Sloan in Universal Studios' Dracula series
• Peter Cushing in Hammer Films' Dracula series
• Frank Finlay in the BBC adaptation Count Dracula (1977)
• Laurence Olivier in the 1979 Dracula
• Anthony Hopkins in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
• Jack Gwillim in The Monster Squad (1987)
• Mel Brooks in the parody Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
• Christopher Plummer in Dracula 2000.

Cushing's character in the Hammer movies was named J. Van Helsing, as seen in Brides of Dracula. 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. 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. 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. (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. Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein with Edward van Sloan as Dr. Waldman (right) in Frankenstein Edward Van Sloan (1 November 1881–6 March 1964) was an American film character actor remembered for his roles in Universal Studios horror films. ... This article is about the American media conglomerate. ... Dracula is a 1931 horror film produced by Universal Pictures Co. ... Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE, (26 May 1913-11 August 1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite his close friend Christopher Lee. ... Hammer horror refers to horror films produced in the late 1950s through the 1970s by the British film studio Hammer Films. ... Dracula is a 1958 British horror film, and the first of a series of Hammer Horror films inspired by the Bram Stoker novel Dracula. ... Frank Finlay, CBE (born 6 August 1926 in Farnworth, in Bolton, Lancashire, England) is a British stage, film and television actor of English, Irish and Scottish descent. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Count Dracula (1977) was a television adaptation of the famous novel by Bram Stoker. ... Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM, (IPA: ; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ... Dracula is a 1979 horror/romance film starring Frank Langella as Count Dracula. ... For the composer, see Antony Hopkins. ... Bram Stokers Dracula is a 1992 horror romance film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. ... Jack Gwillim (15 December 1909 - 2 July 2001) was a prolific British character actor. ... This article is about the film. ... Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an Academy Award-winning American director, writer, comedian, actor and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies. ... Dracula: Dead and Loving It is a 1995 movie directed by Mel Brooks. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Dracula 2000 (also known as Dracula 2001 in some countries) is a horror movie which attempts to transfer the story of Dracula into the setting of a modern teen horror film. ... Hammer horror refers to a series of gothic horror films produced from the late 1950s until the 1970s by the British film production company Hammer Film Productions Ltd. ... The Brides of Dracula are the three seductive female vampires, minions of the infamous King of Vampires, Count Dracula - who inhabit his castle in Transylvania with him, in the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. ... Dracula A.D. 1972 is a 1972 Hammer Horror film directed by Alan Gibson, written by Don Houghton and starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Stephanie Beacham. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... Category: ...

Van Helsing (2004)

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Hugh Jackman played Gabriel Van Helsing, the eponymous hero of Van Helsing (2004). This Van Helsing is the son of Abraham^{[citation needed]}, who gave him away to the Vatican to protect him from Dracula. Raised with no memories of his father or his childhood, he is trained to fight monsters for the Catholic Church. In the movie, he crosses paths with his father's longtime nemesis, Count Dracula. Dracula calls him Gabriel, and his memories of events that took place centuries earlier indicate that he might be a human avatar for the Archangel Gabriel. The film, while it was a critical failure, was more successful at the box office than some people think, grossing $100 million+ in the US and $350 million+ worldwide. This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long. ... Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968 in Pymble, New South Wales) is an Australian film, television and stage actor. ... Gabriel Van Helsing is a fictional character in the 2004 film Van Helsing, the animated prequel Van Helsing: The London Assignment, and other media. ... An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity. ... The name Catholic Church can mean a visible organization that refers to itself as Catholic, or the invisible Christian Church, viz. ... Count Dracula is a fictional character, the titular antagonist of Bram Stokers 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. ... This article is about the concept in Hindu philosophy. ... Gabriel delivering the Annunciation. ...

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.

• The comic book series, The Tomb of Dracula featured Rachel van Helsing, granddaughter of Abraham, as a major member of the principal hunters. Minor characters were Abraham's wife Elizabeth and his brother Boris.
• In the manga and anime, Hellsing, modern day descendant Integra Hellsing leads a British government strike force against supernatural menaces. The story also includes her father Arthur and uncle Richard.
• The DC comic Night Force features Abraham's granddaughter Vanessa Van Helsing.
• Gabriel Van Helsing of the movie Van Helsing is believed to be the son of Abraham.
• Dracula 3000 features Captain Abraham Van Helsing (played by Casper Van Dien), a descendent of the original Van Helsing and the captain of a spacefaring salvage ship. A twist is that this Van Helsing is killed unceremoniously by Dracula mid-film.
• Hammer Films' Dracula series features a whole dynasty of Van Helsings: "J." (equivalent to Abraham), his son Leyland, grandson Lorimer, and great-great-granddaughter Jessica. Peter Cushing played J. in Horror of Dracula (1958), The Brides of Dracula (1960), a brief opening segment of Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972), and The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires (1974), and Lorimer in Dracula A.D. 1972 and The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1974); Robin Stewart played Leyland in The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires; and Jessica was played first by Stephanie Beacham in Dracula A.D. 1972, then by Joanna Lumley in The Satanic Rites of Dracula.
• In the Disney movie, Mom's Got A Date With A Vampire, Malachi Van Helsing is hunting the vampire Dimitri, who is preying on the mother of the main characters.
• A humorous British TV series, Young Dracula, featured Mr "Eric" Van Helsing- presumably the descendant of his more famous predecessor, though with none of his competence- trying to exterminate a family of vampires living in rural Wales. Eric lives in a travel trailer with his son Jonathan who is often embarrassed by his father's belief in (and obsession with) vampires.
• In the Movie Love at First Bite, Dracula falls in love, and another man desended from Van Helsing tries to kill him

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Appearances in comics/manga

Tomb of Dracula

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. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (450x650, 101 KB) Licensing This image is a sequence of panels from the interior of a single issue of a comic book and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the comic book or the... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (450x650, 101 KB) Licensing This image is a sequence of panels from the interior of a single issue of a comic book and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the comic book or the... Tomb of Dracula is a horror comic book 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. Traveling to Romania, Van Helsing had a long conference with some lawyers in Bistritz. Elizabeth went ahead to the manor to set it up for the night. Map of Romania with Wallachia in yellow. ... County Bistriţa-Năsăud County Status County capital Mayor Moldovan Vasile, Democratic Party, since 2000 Population (2002) 81,467 Geographical coordinates Web site http://www. ...

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. 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. Many historians consider the Huns (meaning person in Mongolian language) the first Mongolian and Turkic people mentioned in European history. ... This article is about the Hungarian ethnic group. ...

Returning to Bistritz, a frenzied Van Helsing discovered the existence of the Children of Judas, a vampire coven that served Dracula. 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.) He went there, and found Elizabeth bound on an altar with thirteen Children of Judas and Dracula present. County Bistriţa-Năsăud County Status County capital Mayor Moldovan Vasile, Democratic Party, since 2000 Population (2002) 81,467 Geographical coordinates Web site http://www. ... For other uses, see Occult (disambiguation). ...

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. Borgo Pass retains its atmospheric appearance Borgo Pass is the road that linked Transylvania with Bukovina (Moldavia), still the main route today through the eastern range of the Carpathian Mountains. ...

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 also did make a cameo appearance twice in the Japanese manga Hellsing. The first time he appeared in one of Alucard´s dreams, Van Helsing made many allusions to Dracula when referring to Alucard e.g. "So what are you going to do now, King of the Undead?" 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. This article is about the comics published in East Asian countries. ... Serialized in Young King OURs Original run 1997 – ongoing No. ... Alucard ) is the protagonist in the Hellsing anime and manga series created by Kouta Hirano. ... This article is about the novel. ... Undead is a collective name for mythological beings that are deceased yet behave as if alive. ...

Apocalypse/Dracula

In the Marvel Comics miniseries X-Men: Apocalypse/Dracula, Van Helsing joins forces with the immortal mutant Apocalypse and his worshipers, Clan Akkaba, in order to destroy Dracula, their common enemy. This article is about the comic book company. ... Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur) is a fictional Marvel Comics supervillain and is one of the prominent foes of the superhero group the X-Men. ... Clan Akkaba is a fictional cult made up of descendants of the Marvel Comics mutant supervillain Apocalypse. ...

Parodies

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: Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...

• Dr Von Goosewing from the Cosgrove Hall Films tv-series and the Marvel comic Count Duckula.
• Dr Van Hälsingland from the spex Drak-Ulla by ATLAS², the theatre club at the University College of Skövde in Sweden.

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External Links

• Prof. Abraham Van Helsing at the Internet Movie Database