Curiosities about Frankenstein:
1. The monster known as Frankenstein is not called Frankenstein. This is actually the name of its creator. Victor Von Frankenstein, a chemistry student, biology, anatomy and natural philosophy, built a hideous monster in his lab with pieces of sewn bodies and resuscitated with an electrical discharge on a stormy night.
2. When you find that is rejected by all the creature decides to take revenge on his creator. Wherever he goes, Frankenstein leaves a trail of death and revenge.
3. The "Frankenstein" book (or "Modern Prometheus") was written by the English Mary Shelley (1797-1851), published in 1818.
4. The idea came on a rainy night while on holiday in Switzerland. She met with several friends, including her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Each of them had to write a horror story.
5. Frankenstein won several film versions. The first was in 1931 with British actor Boris Karloff (1887-1969). The most recent (1994) had Robert De Niro in the lead role.
6. In 1935, the theater produced "The Bride of Frankenstein" and four years later, "Frankenstein's son."
7. In 1975, Radu Florescu, a professor of Eastern history at Boston College in Massachusetts (United States), made a revelation: Mary Shelley would have been inspired by dr. Konrad Dippel (1673-1734).
8. The German Dippel was a famous alchemist for inventing, by chance, hydrocyanic acid. He had two fixed ideas: make gold from base metals and give life to the dead. Dippel was expelled from Strasbourg, accused of exhuming bodies "for bizarre anatomical experiments."
9. Another coincidence: Dippel quarreled with a family called Frankenstein for possession of a castle.
10. In 1979, however, the English Peter Haining announced another discovery: Mary Shelley would have inspired amateur scientist Andrew Crosse (1784-1855), author of audacious electromagnetic and metallurgical experience. Thus, the origin of Frankenstein doctor was never quite resolved.
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