Abbe Théophile Moreux (1867-1954) was a renowned French astronomer and meteorologist. He was ordained a priest in 1891 and became a professor of Mathematics and then in 1907 he built his own observatory. During World War II, at the age of 76, he was imprisoned for a few weeks for criticising Herr Hitler.

In 1924 he published L’Atlantide A-T-Elle Existé? ^[716] (Atlantis does it Exist?) in which he argued that the civilisations of the Maya, Inca and Egyptians were incomprehensible without Atlantis.