Henry Lincoln
Henry Lincoln (actually: Henry Soskin ; born April 17, 1930 in London ) is a British author and actor.
Life
In connection with the conspiracy theory about the Prieuré de Sion , Lincoln mainly deals with the modern myth about the treasure of Rennes-le-Château in southern France. Among his most famous publications is part of the collaboration with Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh wrote bestseller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (dt. The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail ) from 1982. Some ideas published therein were in Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code , and in the third Used as part of the Gabriel Knight computer adventure .
He also wrote several scripts , including for the television series The Expert from 1968 to 1976 and for the television series Hadleigh from 1969 to 1976. He was one of the screenwriters of the horror film The Witch of Count Dracula ( Curse of the Crimson Altar ) the year 1968, in which Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee played.
He appeared as a speaker in the 1993 documentary series The Secret . He appeared alongside Dan Brown in the 2004 documentary Da Vinci Code Decoded , as well as in the Danish film Temalørdag: Da Vinci mysteriet og den hellige grail from 2005.
In his 2005 DVD documentary, Origins of the Da Vinci Code , which he made together with Erling Haagensen, it deals with alleged manifestations in the vicinity of Rennes-le-Château and on the island of Bornholm . The Rose Line , a fiction of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code , ends allegedly in southern France in a series of geometric figures, pentagrams and hexagrams formed by buildings and hills. According to Lincoln, these forms are found on Bornholm.
Web links
- Literature by and about Henry Lincoln in the catalog of the German National Library
- Henry Lincoln in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Who's Who of American Women: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living ... 2002, p. 357.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lincoln, Henry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Soskin, Henry (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |