{"id":13306,"date":"2010-11-22T18:04:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T18:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=13306"},"modified":"2018-04-27T09:13:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T08:13:09","slug":"unger-franz-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/unger-franz-joseph\/","title":{"rendered":"Unger, Franz Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>D<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Franz_Unger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22086\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Franz_Unger-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Franz_Unger\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Franz_Unger-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Franz_Unger.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>r. Franz Joseph<\/strong><strong> Unger <\/strong><strong>(1800-1870) <\/strong>was an Austrian botanist and palaeontologist. He ventured outside his natural \u2018comfort zone\u2019 when he wrote <em>Die versunkene insel <\/em><em>Atlantis<\/em> <em>(The Sunken Island of Atlantis)<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/t-v\/\"><sup>723<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup><em>.<\/em> In it he supported the concept of Atlantis as a landmass in the Atlantic,<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span> in an attempt to explain the similarity of flora on both sides of the ocean.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This was the prevailing theory at the time, which was more fully expounded a couple of decades later by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/donnelly-ignatius-loyola\/\">Ignatius Donnelly<\/a>.\u00a0Unger&#8217;s contribution is now available as a free ebook<sup>(a)<\/sup> .<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.de\/books?id=jRVUtihwkhEC&amp;pg=PA1\">https:\/\/books.google.de\/books?id=jRVUtihwkhEC&amp;pg=PA1<\/a> (German)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Franz Joseph Unger (1800-1870) was an Austrian botanist and palaeontologist. He ventured outside his natural \u2018comfort zone\u2019 when he wrote Die versunkene insel Atlantis (The Sunken Island of Atlantis)[723]. In it he supported the concept of Atlantis as a landmass in the Atlantic,* in an attempt to explain the similarity of flora on both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,5695,2556,108],"class_list":["post-13306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantic","tag-flora","tag-franz-joseph-unger","tag-ignatius-donnelly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}