{"id":1513,"date":"2010-05-23T15:10:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T15:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/malaise-dr-rene\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:59:45","slug":"malaise-dr-rene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/malaise-dr-rene\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaise, Dr. Ren\u00e9 Edmond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr<\/strong>. Ren\u00e9<\/strong> M<\/strong>alaise <\/strong>(1892-1978) <\/strong>was a Swedish entomologist, at the Riks Museum in Stockholm, who is famous for the invention of the ‘Malaise trap’ for collecting insect \"\"<\/a>specimens.<\/p>\n

He\u00a0wrote[<\/sup>461<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> about the Mid-Atlantic Ridge<\/a> and its connection with \u00a0<\/a>Atlantis. Malaise was dismissive of Alfred Wegener’s<\/a> theories, preferring the idea of landbridges rather than continental drift as the explanation for the existence of matching flora and fauna on both sides of the Atlantic. This view was expressed in a 1972 booklet, Land-bridges or Continental Drift<\/em>[1455<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Malaise also wrote An Alternative to Continental Drift<\/em> in 1972, in which he supported the idea of a large meteorite impacting the Earth, to the extent of altering the planet’s geographical layout!(e) <\/sup><\/p>\n

He supported the 1934 \u2018constriction hypothesis\u2019 of the paleozoologist, Nils H. Odhner, which attributed vertical crustal movement to ocean\u00a0temperature change rather than isostasy.<\/p>\n

He contended[<\/sup>462<\/sup><\/a>][<\/sup>463<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> that at least parts of the Ridge were exposed during the last Ice Age and that the fossilised remains of freshwater diatoms, found submerged on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, are evidence that the exposed Ridge contained freshwater lakes(c)<\/sup>. Malaise believed the Azores<\/a> are remnants of Atlantis.<\/p>\n

Malaise was also convinced that Atlantis probably traded with Egyptian colonists in England, who were responsible for Stonehenge! (Sykes\u2019 Atlantean Research, <\/em>Oct\/Nov 1949)<\/p>\n

He has also argued in a 1973 booklet, Atlantis: A Verified Myth<\/em>[<\/sup>464<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> that the similarity of arrowheads found on both sides of the Atlantic point to a common ancestry, possibly on an Atlantic Atlantis. He\u00a0further suggested that Atlantis had an important trading centre at the mouth of the River Elbe.<\/p>\n

In 1948, Malaise published a three-part paper, Atlantis: The Atlantis Continent and its Submersion <\/em>in Sykes’ Atlantean Research<\/em><\/a> magazine.(d)<\/sup><\/p>\n

In his 1951 offering, Atlantis en Geologisk Verklighet<\/em>[<\/span>461<\/a>]<\/span><\/sup><\/span>, he included a number of maps, illustrating his contention that Atlantis was submerged over a long protracted period of time.<\/p>\n

Malaise supported the idea that Plato referred to lunar cycles when he spoke of 9,000 ‘years’ being the time between the war with Atlantis and Solon\u2019s visit to Egypt. Malaise believed that Atlantis finally disappeared in the 13th<\/sup>\/12th<\/sup> century BC.<\/p>\n

Dale Drinnon<\/a> offers an extensive review(a)<\/sup> of Malaise and his theories.<\/p>\n

Malaise had ideas which may appear very dated today, but in the light of scientific knowledge of his day, his conclusions were as valid as any other. In the same way new ideas today, based on what we currently know, will appear equally antiquated fifty years from now. Every age repeats the mistake of thinking that it has reached the pinnacle of scientific understanding.<\/p>\n

The excellent Atlantisforschung.de<\/em> website has a more\u00a0comprehensive article on the work of Malaise(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup>\u00a0See: https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170412182131\/https:\/\/frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/rene-malaise-and-geological-reality-of.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> https:\/\/atlantisforschung.de\/index.php?title=Dr._Ren%C3%A9_Malaise<\/a><\/p>\n

(c) <\/sup>https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20091020151421\/https:\/\/geocities.com\/MotorCity\/Factory\/2583\/pyramidlake.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

(d) <\/sup>Atlantean Research <\/em>Vol.1, Nos. 2,3 and 4, 1948.<\/p>\n

(e) <\/sup> Atlantis<\/em>, Vol 25, No.2, Mar-April 1972<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Ren\u00e9 Malaise (1892-1978) was a Swedish entomologist, at the Riks Museum in Stockholm, who is famous for the invention of the ‘Malaise trap’ for collecting insect specimens. He\u00a0wrote[461] about the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and its connection with \u00a0Atlantis. Malaise was dismissive of Alfred Wegener’s theories, preferring the idea of landbridges rather than continental drift as […]<\/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":[696,6394,2259,29,819,563,352,1599,18,2311,132,2310,2312,146,876],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alfred-wegener","tag-atlantean-research","tag-atlantis","tag-azores","tag-continental-drift","tag-dale-drinnon","tag-landbridges","tag-lunar-years","tag-mid-atlantic-ridge","tag-nils-odhner","tag-plato","tag-rene-malaise","tag-river-elbe","tag-solon","tag-stonehenge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","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=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67388,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/67388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}