Lopateki, M. De

M. De Lopateki was an occasional contributor at the end of the 19^th century to the now defunct Los Angeles Herald. In an article^(a) on January 5^th 1896, entitled “True Atlantis” in which he disagreed with details of Ignatius Donnelly’s then recently published, Atlantis. While Donnelly proposed the Azores as remnants of Atlantis, Lopateki argued that the total lack of any traces on the islands of a ‘high culture’ seemed to contradict Donnelly.

However, Lopateki proposed that the civilisations of Mexico and Central America were superior candidates for the title of ‘Atlantis’.

^(a) Los Angeles Herald 5 January 1896 — California Digital Newspaper Collection (archive.org)