Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (Edinburgh, 22 may 1859 — Crowborough (Sussex), 7 July 1930) was a British physician who was best known as a writerof stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson. He was a prolific writer whose other works include stories and historical novels, science fiction, plays, poetry and non-fiction.



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[hide] *1 Life  ==Life[ Edit] == ===Youth[ Edit] === Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle came from a wealthy Irish Catholic family. The man, however, was an alcoholic, who knew the family to bring in serious difficulties and eventually ended in 1876 in an establishment. His mother, Mary Foley, on the other hand, was a well developed woman with a large influence on Arthur. Her abilities as a storyteller were great and inspiring for her son.
 * 1.1 Youth
 * 1.2 Doctor and husband
 * 1.3 Sherlock Holmes
 * 1.4 Publicist and public personality
 * 2 bibliography (selection)
 * 2.1 Sherlock Holmes stories
 * Professor Challengerverhalen 2.2
 * 2.3 historical novels
 * 2.4 other works
 * 3 external links

Doyle was a 10-year-old age sent by his parents to a Jesuit school. When he left the school in 1875, he had completely against the Catholicism and probably turned Christianity and wasagnostic. Lady Jean and Sir Arthur===Doctor and husband[ Edit] === From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Of importance in this period is the influence of one of professors, Dr. Joseph Bell, who focused on observation and deduction. Doyle started his career after his studies as a ship's doctor on a trip to West Africa and began a private practice in Plymouth in England in 1882.

He married in 1885 with Louise Hawkins. Louise suffered from tuberculosis and eventually died in 1893 to 1906. He married in 1907 with Jean Leckie, on whom he had fallen in love as early as 1897. Out of loyalty to his first wife that relationship allegedly continued until her death on a Platonic level.

<p lang="en" len="654" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">In 1890 Doyle in Vienna specialized in ophthalmology in 1891 and moved to London where he set up a practice as an ophthalmologist, although he has treated patients there little more.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Doyle was also an avid sportsman. He played cricket, boxed with conviction and was, unusually for his time, in Switzerland on skis (a sport he had met in Norway). ===Sherlock Holmes<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">As a beginning doctor was Doyle already started writing stories. A Study in Scarletwas published In 1887, in which Sherlock Holmes occurred for the first time. The stories around Holmes (Bakerstreet 221b), which appeared in the magazine The Strand Magazine, meant a major innovation of the genre and were very popular in a short time. The pressure this put on Conan Doyle, that made his character him serious cross sat down. In november 1891 he wrote to his mother: ' I'm thinking of Holmes to kill ... so he is gone once and for all. He leads my mind off better things '. In december 1893, this also happened in the story "The Final Problem, in which Holmes and his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty jointly in the fall and Reichenbach falls in Switzerland apparently perish. However, this is not his readers pikten and Holmes returned as apparent survivor of the drama at the waterfalls in many back story (see bibliography). ===Publicist and public personality<span class="mw-editsection" len="362" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">After the Boer War in South Africa around the turn of the last century, wrote Doyle, who had signed up voluntarily in the army as a doctor, a pamphlet entitled "the war in South Africa: causes and course" that was translated in many languages. He defended the British practices criticized abroad in South Africa, such as the development of concentration camps. Conan Doyle believed that it was for this reason that he was knighted and in 1902 to Deputy-Lieutenant of Surrey was appointed. He turned out to have strong reservations against getting his title and accepted that only after pressure from his mother. In the first years of the 20th century, he was twice a candidate for the parliamentary elections but was not elected, although he was a respectable number of votes.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Conan Doyle resigned after the death of his first wife a number of times as a champion for Justice for the condemned prisoners, later George Edalji and Oscar Slater. The Edalji case, in which Conan Doyle, a sort of Sherlock Holmes manifested, is recently described in the novel Arthur & George by Julian Barnes.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Doyle tried again in the first world war as a volunteer in the army to be included, but his age (55 years) made him unfit for active service. His son, Kingsley, made part of the British army. Kingsley came in 1918 to life.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Because of this and other deaths in his family got Doyle at the end of the first world war a depression and he became more and more under the spell of the Spiritism. He wrote books on this subject (The Coming of the Fairies from 1921) and gave lectures. He was apparently completely convinced of the existence of fairies by the photos of the Cottingley Fairies who at the time were published. He recreated this in his book, along with theories about the nature and existence of fairies.

<p lang="en" len="139" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">There are sound recordings of him indicating that he preserved a relatively high voice with a clear ' genteel ' Scots accent it had.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is buried in the cemetery of Minstead in the New Forest, Hampshire, England. ==Bibliography (selection)<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302948px;"> ===Sherlock Holmes Stories<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Professor Challengerverhalen<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Historical novels<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Other works<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * A study in scarlet (A Study in Scarlet, 1887)
 * The sign of the four (The Sign of the Four, 1890)
 * The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1892)
 * The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 1894)
 * The Hound of the Baskervilles (The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902)
 * The return of Sherlock Holmes (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, 1905)
 * The Valley of terror (The Valley of Fear, 1915)
 * His last bow (His Last Bow, 1917)
 * The files of Sherlock Holmes (The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes 1927)
 * The Lost World (1912)
 * The Poison Belt (1913)
 * The Land of Mists (1926)
 * The Disintigration Machine (1928)
 * When the World Screamed (1929)
 * Micah Clarke (1889)
 * The White Company (1891)
 * The Refugees (1893)
 * The Great Shadow (1892)
 * Uncle Bernac (1897)
 * Sir Nigel (1906)
 * Mystery of Cloomber (1889)
 * The Captain of the Polestar, and other tales (1890)
 * The Doings Of Raffles Haw (1891)
 * Beyond the City (1892)
 * Round The Red Lamp (1894)
 * The parasite (1894)
 * The Stark Munro Letters (1895)
 * Rodney Stone (1896)
 * Songs of Action (1898)
 * The Tragedy of The Korosko (1898)
 * A Duet (1899)
 * The Great Boer War (1900)
 * The Adventures of Gerard (1903)
 * Through the Magic by (1907)
 * The Crime of the Congo (1909)
 * The New Revelation (1918)
 * The Vital Message (1919)
 * The Coming of the Fairies (1921)
 * Tales of Terror & Mystery (1923)
 * The History of Spiritualism (1926)