Franke, Alfred
Alfred Franke was a German researcher who published[907] a review of the four main Atlantis theories of his day, fifty years ago; southern Spain, north Africa, Minoan Hypothesis as well as Helgoland, which he favoured. Franke maintained that Plato used ‘Atlantis’ as we use ‘Rome’ to indicate (a) a city, (b) an empire or (c) an area of centre of religious influence.