Auguste Nicaise, (1828-1900) was a French archaeologist who, in a public lecture entitled Les Terres disparues: L’Atlantide, Théra, Krakatoa delivered in Paris in 1885, linked Atlantis with the explosion of Thera. He was inspired by the effects of the eruption on Krakatoa just two years earlier and was probably aware of Louis Figuier’s book. The text of the lecture, in French, is now available on the Internet^(a).

^(a) http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Terres_disparues