{"id":14947,"date":"2011-07-09T09:59:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T08:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=14947"},"modified":"2025-12-19T07:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:36:36","slug":"jorge-bonsor-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/jorge-bonsor-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonsor, George (Jorge)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>George (Jorge) Edward Bonsor<\/strong> <strong>(1855-1930)<\/strong> was born in France to <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bonsor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28068\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Bonsor.png\" alt=\"Bonsor\" width=\"186\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a>British parents, but spent most of his life working as an artist and archaeologist in Spain. In the 1920s, Bonsor and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/adolph-schulten\/\">Adolph Schulten <\/a>searched in The <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/donana-marshes\/\">Do\u00f1ana Marshes<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tartessos\/\">Tartessos<\/a>. An account of Bonsor\u2019s work is available online<sup>(a)<\/sup>, in Spanish, but it translates quite well with Google. Despite comments recently attributed to Professor<a title=\"freund\" href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/freund-professor-richard\/\"> Richard Freund<\/a>, <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bibliography\/e-f\/\">0879<\/a>.71] <\/sup>I have no evidence that Bonsor equated Tartessos with Atlantis as Schulten did.<\/p>\r\n<p>A number of his books, in Spanish, are available online<sup>(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hepke-karl-jurgen\/\">Karl Juergen Hepke <\/a>has written an extensive paper (in English) on the work of Bonsor<sup>(<\/sup><sup>b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juntadeandalucia.es\/educacion\/vscripts\/wbi\/w\/rec\/3121.pdf\">https:\/\/www.juntadeandalucia.es\/educacion\/vscripts\/wbi\/w\/rec\/3121.pdf<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200803154332\/http:\/\/www.tolos.de\/search_for_tartessos.E.html\">search_for_tartessos.E (archive.org)<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/jorge-bonsor-18551930-un-academico-correspondiente-de-la-real-academia-de-la-his\">jorge-bonsor-18551930-un-academico-correspondiente-de-la-real-academia-de-la-his directory listing (archive.org)<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George (Jorge) Edward Bonsor (1855-1930) was born in France to British parents, but spent most of his life working as an artist and archaeologist in Spain. In the 1920s, Bonsor and Adolph Schulten searched in The Do\u00f1ana Marshes for Tartessos. An account of Bonsor\u2019s work is available online(a), in Spanish, but it translates quite well [&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":[422,1028,1422,2146,428,13],"class_list":["post-14947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adolf-schulten","tag-donana-marshes","tag-jorge-bonsor","tag-karl-jurgen-hepke","tag-richard-freund","tag-tartessos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947","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=14947"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65751,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions\/65751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}