Heinrich-Julius von Klaproth (1783-1835) was a German orientalist who suggested that Atlantis had been a large island that nearly filled the western Mediterranean basin. He produced a speculative map of this island, which he referred to as Tirrenide (from Tyrrhenia), a term used to describe the combined and expanded landmasses of Corsica, Sardinia and Minorca. Although born in Berlin, Klaproth spent the last twenty years of his life working in Paris.