Robert Langdon

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Professor
Robert Langdon
first appearance Illuminati
Novels with Robert Langdon Illuminati , Da Vinci Code , The Lost Symbol , Inferno , Origin
birth June 22, 1964
origin Exeter , New Hampshire , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
gender Male
hair brown
job Professor of Religious Iconology and Symbolology

Professor Robert Langdon is a fictional professor at Harvard University created by Dan Brown . There he teaches religious iconology and symbolology (a fictional field of research related to the study of historical symbols). Robert Langdon is the protagonist in five of Dan Brown's novels : Illuminati , Da Vinci Code , The Lost Symbol , Inferno and Dan Brown's latest work Origin , which was published on October 3, 2017. He is played by Tom Hanks in the film adaptations of the thriller Da Vinci Code (filmed under the name: The Da Vinci Code ), Illuminati and Inferno . He is voiced by Robert Clotworthy in the video game The Da Vinci Code .

Creation of the figure

The character "Robert Langdon" was created by Dan Brown as a fictional alter ego or as "the man he wishes he could be" ("the man he wishes he could be"). Like Dan Brown , Robert Langdon was born on June 22nd, 1964 in Exeter , New Hampshire . Langdon is also said to have attended Phillips Exeter Academy just like Brown . Robert Langdon is named after the American graphic designer , ambigram artist , painter and writer John Langdon and, like him, is fascinated by ambigrams: Ambigrams can already be found on the cover of the first edition of Brown's novel "Illuminati" and they appear again and again throughout the book Ambigrams, which are interpreted by Langdon. John Langdon also created the logo for the fictional Zurich custodian bank that appeared in the film adaptation "The Da Vinci Code".

description

Physically

Robert Langdon is 49 years old (born 1964) in the 2013 thriller "Inferno" , about 6 feet tall and has an impressive bass voice. He was a competitive swimmer in college , so he's in pretty good shape.

personality

Langdon has astonishing encyclopedic and academic knowledge in the fields of mysticism , occult societies, and art history. Symbols and ambigrams are just as much a part of his area of ​​expertise as the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri . His eidetic memory is also addressed in the books . He always wears a watch with a picture of Mickey Mouse . This reminds him to laugh more often and not to take university life so seriously. She always helps him in situations in which he has problems with his strong claustrophobia , which arose when he was stuck for one day in a well he had fallen into.

bibliography

In the books about Robert Langdon, he is said to have written six books that revolve around his subject, symbolism:

  • The symbolism of the secret sects
  • The Art of the Illuminati: Part 1
  • The lost language of ideograms
  • Religious iconology
  • Symbols of lost sacred femininity
  • Christian symbols in the Muslim world

Appears outside the works of Dan Brown

  • In the films ( The Da Vinci Code - The Da Vinci Code , Illuminati and Inferno ) by Ron Howard , the character is the main character, just like in the books by Dan Brown.
  • Quotes from Robert Langdon for newspaper articles (e.g. "google is not a synonym for research")
  • In guidebooks relating to Dan Brown's works (e.g.)
  • Comments on Robert Langdon's conclusions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Julia Bähr: More secret than the Illuminati. New novel "Inferno" by Dan Brown. In: Focus . May 14, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2013 .
  2. Dan Brown: Inferno is not an activist book, I don't have a solution to overpopulation. In: The Independent . May 14, 2013, accessed May 26, 2013 .
  3. ^ John Langdon - Inspiration for Fictional Robert. Retrieved May 26, 2013 .
  4. Dan Brown: Inferno . Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-7857-2480-4 , p. 575 .
  5. Oliver Mittelbach: Dan Brown's thriller locations as travel destinations. books & friends, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-9809408-4-5 .