Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
May 22, 1859 - July 7,
1930
Conan Doyle
Nothing so false as too obvious facts.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born into
a family of Irish Catholics, known for
its achievements in art and literature.
His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, architect
and artist, at age 22 married 17
years, Mary Foley, passionately loving the
book and has a great talent for the
narrator. From it, Arthur inherited his
interest in literature. The family of
the future writer was experiencing serious
financial difficulties - solely because of
oddities in the behavior of his father,
who suffered from alcoholism. Arthur's school
life was in prep school Goddera.
In 1876, Arthur graduated from college
and returned home: the first thing he
had written his name on the papers
of his father, who by then had almost
completely lost his mind. Doyle chose
the arts medicine. Doyle, Arthur went
to Edinburgh University for further education.
While a student at Doyle wrote his
first short story "The Mystery of
Sesasskoy Valley." In the same year
the second story Doyle's "American History."
After receiving a university degree in
1881 and a Bachelor of Medicine, Conan
Doyle took up medical practice. Finally,
in 1891, Doyle decided to make literature
his main profession.
In January 1884 the magazine "Cornhill"
published the story "Post Hebekuka Dzhefsona."
In those days, he met his future
wife, Louise Hawkins, a wedding took place
on August 6, 1885. Early morning July
7, 1930 at his home in Sussex Conan
Doyle died of a heart attack. He
was buried near his garden shed. On
the tombstone is engraved at the request
of the widow of chivalric motto: Steel
True, Blade Straight ...
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes - a literary character
created by Arthur Conan Doyle. His works
have been devoted to the adventures of
Sherlock Holmes, the famous London-based private
investigator, are considered classics of the
detective genre. The prototype is Holmes'
Dr. Joseph Bell, Doyle co-worker with
whom they worked together at the Royal
Edinburgh Hospital.
- A total of Sherlock Holmes appears in 56 stories and four novels Arthur Conan Doyle. In most cases the story is the name of best friend and companion Holmes - Doctor Watson.
- The first piece of the famous detective story "A Study in Scarlet," written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. The last book, "Archives of Sherlock Holmes," published in 1927.
- Arthur Conan Doyle in his works never informed of the date of birth of Sherlock Holmes. Presumably his birth year - 1854-D (the story "His Last Bow"). About family and ancestors of Sherlock Holmes, little is known.
Ibid Holmes mentions that his grandmother was the sister of the French painter Horace Vernet. In a number of works of works of Sherlock Holmes's brother, Mycroft Holmes, who is older than him by seven.
- On the formation of Sherlock Holmes, apparently, a biochemist. At the time of acquaintance with Watson worked as a laboratory assistant in a London hospital - stated at the beginning of "Study in Scarlet." "One fellow, who works in a chemical laboratory at our hospital ... I think he knows anatomy, chemistry, and it is first class, but it seems that medicine has never studied systematically." None of the subsequent works on Holmes as a medical assistant, lab technician is not mentioned. As well as the author no longer speaks about whatever was given, in addition to private investigation, the work of his hero.
- Dr. Watson - friend, assistant and biographer of Sherlock Holmes. In the stories often referred to as Dr. Watson. He loved to accompany Holmes and never gave up the trip with a friend because he amused the work of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mrs. Hudson is the owner of the apartment on Baker Street, 221b, which reside Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
- Conan Doyle himself believed the stories about Holmes "light reading matter". Moreover, he did not like the fact that readers prefer to work the rest of the Holmes stories of the writer, then, as Conan Doyle considered himself the author of the historical novel. In the end, Sir Arthur decided to stop the detective story, removing the most popular literary character in a battle with Professor Moriarty at the Reyhenbahskogo waterfall.