Was there a real Dr. Frankenstein? Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
is considered by many to be the first science fiction novel. It was
written in 1816-1817, during a time when bringing the dead back to life
was a serious endeavor in scientific circles. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later Shelley)
wrote the book as an exploration of the ethics of such experimentation
and brought the question to a wider audience. The model for the
character of Dr. Frankenstein could have been any, or several, of a
number of actual people. Meet some of those people in a classic mental_floss article I wrote in 2008.
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