William Wilkinson (diplomat)
William Wilkinson (died 1836) was an Englishman appointed as the
Ioan Caragea, the then hospodar of Wallachia, Wilkinson failed in his attempt to secure appointment as British Consul in Bucharest in 1818.[1] He wrote a book An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia: With Various Political Observations Relating to Them (1820).[5] It was one of the books on which Bram Stoker took notes before writing Dracula, and the Romanian name Dracula was taken from it.[6][7]
Wilkinson was later posted to Syros, in 1829, by the Levant Company.[8] He died in Paris on 23 August 1836.[9]
References
- ^ ISBN 9781592110261
- ^ Review. - Wilkinson's Wallachia and Moldavia, The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 129, 1821 [1]
- ISBN 978-1-107-60131-4.
- ISBN 978-1-136-23734-8.
- ^ An account of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia - William Wilkinson, Longman, 1820 (Google Free eBook)
- ISBN 978-0-300-07312-6.
- ISBN 978-1-4262-0607-8.
- ISBN 978-0-7546-6023-1.
- ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. R. Newton. 1837. p. 669.
External links
- An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia: With Various Political Observations Relating to Them; 1820; at Google Books.
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