Wednesday, February 3, 2016

In Frankenstein what university does Victor attend?

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,
Victor Frankenstein attends the University of Ingolstadt in Germany, where he, under
professor M. Waldman, studies the sciences interrelated to creating his Monster:
biology, electricity, Galvinism, pseudo-genetic engineering, and early
genetics.


At the beginning of Chapter 3, Victor begins the
frame story, narrating thusly:


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When I had attained the age of seventeen, my
parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt. I had
hitherto attended the schools of Geneva; but my father thought it necessary, for the
completion of my education, that I should be made acquainted with other customs than
those of my native country. My departure was therefore fixed at an early date; but
before the day resolved upon could arrive, the first misfortune of my life occurred--an
omen, as it were, of my future
misery.



He leaves Geneva and
arrives at the University of Ingolstadt in 1788.  Four years later, in the Spring of
1792, after four years of study, Victor discovers the secret to animating
life.


After the creature is "born," Victor's friend Henry
Clerval will rescue Victor from Ingolstadt and nurse him back to health in
Geneva.

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