Kiss, Edmund

Edmund Kiss (1886-1960) was a German architectural student with an interest in archaeology. After the First World War he wrote a number of adventure novels. In the 1920’s he began his foray into the world of ‘alternative archaeology’. Later in that decade he made his first visit to Tiahuanaco.

The only known official photo of Kiss

During this period Kiss worked with Arthur Posnansky and advanced the idea that Tiahuanaco had been built by Nordic refugees from Atlantis (Thule) more than 17,000 years ago. Their work included a search for evidence to support the theories of Hanns Hörbiger.

Matthew Gildner, a professor of Latin American history has written an interesting essay on the background to Kiss’ theories and work in Bolivia^(b).

During the Third Reich was requested by Heinrich Himmler to take a team of researchers from the Ahnenerbe to continue his studies at Tiahuanaco but the expedition was called off. Following that he briefly joined the Waffen SS. After the war he continued his interest in Atlantis, writing a book on Plato’s Critias and contributing to Egerton Sykes’ Atlantean Research newsletter in the 1950’s.

Rafael Videla Eissmann is an historian at the Catholic University of Chile, has written a number of articles in Spanish^(a) regarding Kiss, as well as a wide range of other historical subjects.

>As late as 1953, Kiss was still defending Hörbiger’s idea of an ice-covered Moon^(c).<

^(a) https://charlasylecturas.blogspot.com/

^(b) https://theappendix.net/issues/2013/4/andean-atlantis-race-science-and-the-nazi-occult-in-bolivia

>^(c) Atlantis, Volume 6, No.1, May 1953<