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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle met Dr. Joseph Bell while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Bell was one of Doyle's professors and his remarkable diagnostic skills and deductive reasoning served as an inspiration for the character of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle later acknowledged Bell's influence on the creation of Sherlock Holmes.

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Who was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's medical tutor?

Dr Joseph Bell


Which traits in Dr Joseph Bell most impressed Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

Dr. Joseph Bell was surgeon that was noted for being extremely observant. Bell was known to pick a stranger and guess the stranger's occupation and recent activities. Bell did help Scotland Yard on some mysteries.


Who does sir Arthur Conan Doyle base Sherlock Holmes on?

A man named Dr. Bell, who was a mentor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in his early years of medical learning.


What is Dr Joseph bells connection to Sherlock Holmes?

Dr. Joseph Bell's connection to Sherlock Holmes is: while Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Bell was his university professor, and during his course Conan Doyle was allowed to watch and observe his appointments with his clients. So, even before his clients had sat down, Dr. Bell had already worked out their [his clients] past profession, what they had been doing and where they had been all from deducting the evidence from the little clues offered, subconsciously, by the client.


Is the dectective named Sherlock homes a real person?

There may be people alive on Earth called "Sherlock Homes" and these people are real. However the character "Sherlock Holmes " who is the detective is not a real person, he is a fictional character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Arthur Conan Doyle met Joseph Bell in 1877, and served as his clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Arthur Conan Doyle later went on to write a series of popular stories featuring the fictional character Holmes, who Doyle has previously stated was loosely based on Bell and his observant ways.


What inference can be made about Dr. Joseph Bell?

Dr. Joseph Bell was a skilled observer and deductive thinker, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used Bell as the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. Bell's ability to make accurate deductions from small details suggests a high level of intelligence and keen insight into human behavior.


Was Sherlock Holmes a real person?

No, but he was based off of Joe Bell, the author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's old teacher.


Who did Conan Doyle claim that Holmes was based on?

Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, Emile Gaboriau's Monseiur Lecoq, Wilkie Collins' Sergeant Cuff, and Fergus Hume's Detective Gorby. ------ Well, according to some, Conan Doyle got the name Holmes from Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the name Sherlock from a famous violinist


Was Sherlock Holmes ever born?

The man himself? NO He was imagined and created in fiction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a doctor and (to make ends meet) writer. Doyle learned to medically examine patients and observe them from Dr. Joseph Bell, who did some observations on his patients like Holmes. Many agree (as Doyle said himself) that Bell was the inspiration to Doyle to create Holmes.


Where did Arthur Conan Doyle get his idea for Sherlock Holmes?

Arthur Conan Doyle was inspired by one of his old masters in university. He was called Joseph Bell. Doyle admired Bell immensely for his cool attitude, razor-sharp mind and brilliant powers of deduction. Bell becamse Holmes, and Doyle became Watson. But Holmes' attire was based on someone else, the illustrator's younger brother.


Who did the author use as his pattern for the character of Sherlock Holmes?

Conan Doyle stated very unambiguously that he based Holmes on Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle worked at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.


What are the differences between Dr Joseph Bell and Sherlock Holmes?

Dr. Joseph Bell was a real person and a skilled Scottish surgeon known for his deductive reasoning and attention to detail, while Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who is based on Dr. Bell. Holmes possesses extraordinary deductive abilities and uses them to solve complex mysteries in Doyle's stories. While Dr. Bell inspired the character of Holmes, the two differ in that Holmes is a fictional character with exaggerated abilities.