{"id":18944,"date":"2012-12-11T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T08:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=18944"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:42:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:42:57","slug":"christ-wilhelm-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/christ-wilhelm-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ, Wilhelm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wilhelm<\/strong><strong> Christ (1831-1906) <\/strong>was a 19<sup>th <\/sup>century German scholar who was <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Wilhelm_Christ.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-18948\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" title=\"Wilhelm_Christ\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Wilhelm_Christ-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Wilhelm_Christ-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Wilhelm_Christ-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Wilhelm_Christ.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/span>possibly the first to suggest that the invasion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sea-peoples\/\">Sea Peoples<\/a>, recorded by the Egyptians, reflected the Atlantean attack in Plato\u2019s narrative. In an 1886 monograph<sup>(a)<\/sup> he predated the central thesis of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spanuth-dr-jurgen\/\">J\u00fcrgen Spanuth <\/a>by nearly a century.<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/colavito-jason-n\/\">\u00a0Jason Colavito<\/a> has offered an English translation of part of Christ&#8217;s text<sup>(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Although Spanuth includes Christ in his bibliography, he does not credit him with the original idea in the body of the text.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span>Similarly, Jason Colavito has also accused <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mariolakos-ilias-d-n\/\">Ilias Mariolakos <\/a>of borrowing from Christ without attribution<sup>(d)<\/sup><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Christ commented that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/plutarchus-mestrius\/\">Plutarch<\/a>&#8216;s reference to <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ogygia\/\">Ogygia<\/a> being in the Atlantic and a continent beyond it demonstrated an early knowledge of America<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><sup>(b)<\/sup><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a) <\/span><\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/abhandlungenbaye17bayeuoft#page\/450\/mode\/2up\">https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/abhandlungenbaye17bayeuoft#page\/450\/mode\/2up<\/a> (p451-512)(German)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><sup>(b)<\/sup><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/rlebling.blogspot.ie\/2012\/03\/where-was-ogygia-isle-of-calypso.html\">https:\/\/rlebling.blogspot.ie\/2012\/03\/where-was-ogygia-isle-of-calypso.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/the-first-effort-to-identify-atlantis-with-the-sea-peoples\">https:\/\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/the-first-effort-to-identify-atlantis-with-the-sea-peoples\">www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/the-first-effort-to-identify-atlantis-with-the-sea-peoples<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(d)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/greek-scientists-claim-plutarch-recorded-ancient-greek-voyages-to-canadian-colony\">https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/greek-scientists-claim-plutarch-recorded-ancient-greek-voyages-to-canadian-colony<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilhelm Christ (1831-1906) was a 19th century German scholar who was possibly the first to suggest that the invasion of the Sea Peoples, recorded by the Egyptians, reflected the Atlantean attack in Plato\u2019s narrative. In an 1886 monograph(a) he predated the central thesis of J\u00fcrgen Spanuth by nearly a century.\u00a0Jason Colavito has offered an English [&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":[43,1266,232,65,378,60,1683],"class_list":["post-18944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-jason-colavito","tag-jurgen-spanuth","tag-ogygia","tag-plutarch","tag-sea-peoples","tag-wilhelm-christ"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944","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=18944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66013,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944\/revisions\/66013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}