Vampire 1819 john polidori biography

John William Polidori (1795–1821) was a British physician and writer associated with the Romantic movement. Credited with pioneering the vampire genre, he authored "The Vampyre" (1819), initially misattributed to Lord Byron.

Polidori's work remains a significant contribution to fantasy fiction[1†][2†][3†].

Early Years and Education

John William Polidori was born on 7 September 1795 in Westminster, the eldest son of Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and his wife Anna Maria Pierce, an English governess[1†][4†].

He had three brothers and four sisters[1†][4†].

Polidori was one of the earliest pupils at the recently established Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire from 1804[1†][4†][5†][6†]. In 1810, he went up to the University of Edinburgh, where he wrote a thesis on sleepwalking and received his degree as a doctor of medicine on 1 August 1815, at the age of 19[1†][4†][5†][6†].

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