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Arthur Conan Doyle, in full Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (born May 22, 1859, Edinburgh, Scotland—died July 7, 1930, Crowborough, Sussex, England), Scottish writer best known for
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Arthur Conan Doyle, in full Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (born May 22, 1859, Edinburgh, Scotland—died July 7, 1930, Crowborough, Sussex, England), Scottish writer best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes—one of the most vivid and enduring characters in English fiction. Conan Doyle, the second of Charles Altamont and Mary Foley Doyle’s 10 children, began seven years of Jesuit education in Lancashire, England, in 1868. After an additional year of schooling in Feldkirch, Austria,
Conan Doyle returned to Edinburgh. Through the influence of Dr. Bryan Charles Waller, his mother’s lodger, he prepared for entry into the University of Edinburgh’s Medical School. He received Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery qualifications from Edinburgh in 1881 and an M.D. in 1885 upon completing his thesis, “An Essay upon the Vasomotor Changes in Tabes Dorsalis.”
While a medical student, Conan Doyle was deeply impressed by the skill of his professor, Dr. Joseph Bell, in observing the most minute detail regarding a patient’s condition. This master of diagnostic deduction became the model for Conan Doyle’s literary creation, Sherlock Holmes, who first appeared in A Study in Scarlet, a novel-length story published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual of 1887. Other aspects of Conan Doyle’s medical education and experiences appear in his semiautobiographical novels, The Firm of Girdlestone (1890) and The Stark Munro Letters (1895), and in the collection of medical short stories Round the Red Lamp (1894). (See also Sherlock Holmes: Pioneer in Forensic Science.) Conan Doyle’s creation of the logical, cold, calculating Holmes, the “world’s first and only consulting detective,” sharply contrasted with the paranormal beliefs Conan Doyle addressed in a short novel of this period, The Mystery of Cloomber (1889). Conan Doyle’s early interest in both scientifically supportable evidence and certain paranormal phenomena exemplified the complex diametrically opposing beliefs he struggled with throughout his life.
(available at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-Conan-Doyle)
According to the passage, choose the correct answer.
- Conan Doyle was a doctor but he had always been more interested in becoming a professional writer.
- The character Sherlock Holmes was entirely based on Conan Doyle’s professor, Joseph Bell.
- Conan Doyle’s early education was conducted by Jesuits, after which he moved to Edinburgh to study medicine.
- Conan Doyle believed that supernatural phenomena were real but he was never able to witness any.
- As a writer, Conan Doyle never published anything relevant other than Sherlock Holmes’ adventures.
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A alternativa está correta porque reproduz com fidelidade a sequência descrita no texto: Conan Doyle iniciou sua formação com educação jesuíta em Lancashire, fato indicado ao afirmar que começou sete anos de estudos jesuítas em 1868.
Em seguida, o texto menciona um ano adicional de escolaridade em Feldkirch, Áustria, e diz que ele então retornou a Edimburgo. Esse retorno é o marco para a etapa seguinte de sua vida acadêmica.
Ao voltar a Edimburgo, Conan Doyle, com a influência de um mentor, preparou-se para ingressar na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Edimburgo, onde obteve os títulos médicos (MB, ChM e posteriormente o MD).
Portanto, a afirmação resume corretamente: formação inicial com os jesuítas e posterior mudança para Edimburgo para estudar medicina.
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