 Stoker came across the name Dracula in his reading on Romanian history, and chose this to replace the name ("Count Wampyr") that he had originally intended to use for his villain.However, some Dracula scholars, led by Elizabeth Miller, have questioned the depth of this connection as early as 1998.They argue that Stoker in fact knew little of the historic Vlad III, Vlad the Impaler, and that he used only the name "Dracula" and some miscellaneous scraps of Romanian history.