Frederik Klee (1808-1864) was a Danish scholar and was a parliamentarian from 1858 until his death. He published his Le Déluge^(a) in Copenhagen in 1842 and in Paris^[794] in 1847, a work which included many original ideas. He was one of the first to suggest the possibility of an earth axial shift, although in the French edition of his book he discusses the 1844 theory of Baron René de Boucheporn, who also supported the idea of a pole shift. But, Boucheporn followed Carli, attributing it to an encounter with a comet in contrast to Klee’s contention that the cause was internal.  A full English language biography of Klee plus excerpts from his book is now available^(b).

Some of Klee’s ideas were ahead of his time and were forgotten until the following century when they were echoed in the work of Wegener and Hapgood.

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http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8VgJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Le+D%C3%A9luge+Klee&hl=en&ei=PwjETo2sMsHLhAem6K3gDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

^(b) http://data6.blog.de/media/003/5489003_89ff1e12aa_d.pdf