He is the object of affection for his adopted sister, who was found in an Italian peasant village.
This character is first mentioned in a series of four letters addressed to a Mrs. Margaret Saville. He is the object of affection for his adopted sister, who was found in an Italian peasant village. At the end of the work he appears in, this character pursues the murderer of his brother William and friend Henry Clerval to the Arctic Circle, where he dies from pneumonia. This character's creation was inspired by both a sight of lightning striking down a tree during his childhood and the alchemical works of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus. A notable student of Ingolstadt University, for 10 points, name this man who creates a namesake monster in a novel by Mary Shelley.
This character is first mentioned in a series of four letters addressed to a Mrs. Margaret Saville.
{Victor Frankenstein} [accept either]