An Investigation into Vlad Tepes

Submitted by MiguelPolimatus t3_zkh8yc in history

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/11/dracula-vlad-the-impaler-letter-protein-clues?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR3fi4mxTfInFxHOwdmU34s0TSMgCf-IW79A5DWBk3SJyEW4bEyAUW2E9gc

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Gleb and Svetlana Zilberstein’s mission? To extract genetic material from the letters written by Vlad Dracula – the historical inspiration for Stoker’s vampiric count – left there by his sweat, fingerprints and saliva.

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Big_Deetz t1_izzvkth wrote

Very cool how many traces they were able to find. Modern molecular analysis is crazy.

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ElleEast t1_j01ppek wrote

>the historical inspiration for Stoker’s vampiric count

well, that's a popular myth, but there's no indication in the novel that Dracula is Vlad Tepes

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ModSquirtle t1_j01t8y8 wrote

Replying to ElleEast (#919,483)

He's literally from the house of draculesti, and has been called and even signed as different variations of Vlad Dracula if I remember correctly and a son of vlad dracul. He most definitely is an inspiration.

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Jmac0585 t1_j024dx3 wrote

Elizabeth Kostova's novel The historian is amassing

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LTlurkerFTredditor t1_j03aalp wrote

Replying to ElleEast (#919,483)

Vlad "the Impaler's" father was called Vlad Dracul. "Dracul" means dragon in Romanian. He was a member of the knightly "Order of the Dragon," and his family was known as the "House of Draculesti."

Vlad "Tepes" was known as Vlad Dracula - "Dracula" means "son of Dracul."

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ElleEast t1_j067p1s wrote

Replying to ModSquirtle (#919,618)

he is, and probably Stoker got the name from a book on Transilvanian history.. what I'm saying is that there's no mention at all in the novel that Dracula is Vlad, he tells a story to Jonathan about his ancesters, and mixes the story of different characters, like Vlad II into Radu, or Radu's history like it was Mircea's

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