{"id":2266,"date":"2010-05-31T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/humboldt-alexander-freiherr-von\/"},"modified":"2023-07-29T07:21:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T06:21:54","slug":"humboldt-alexander-freiherr-von","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/humboldt-alexander-freiherr-von\/","title":{"rendered":"Humboldt, Alexander Freiherr von *"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alexander Freiherr von<\/strong> <strong>H<\/strong><strong>umboldt<\/strong> <strong>(1769-1859) <\/strong>was a renowned German scientist and explorer. He spent five years (1799-1804) on an expedition to South America. While there he discovered the Casiquiare River, which links the Amazon and Orinoco rivers.<\/p>\n<p>Humboldt expressed the view that Atlantis had possibly been located in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/america\/\">America<\/a>, although in his 1814 book, Personal Narrative of Travels<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\">1329<\/a>.v1.201]<\/sup>, he stated that he did \u201cnot intend to form any opinion in favour of the existence of the Atlantis.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/AvHumboldt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27898\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/AvHumboldt.jpg\" alt=\"AvHumboldt\" width=\"246\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/AvHumboldt.jpg 246w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/AvHumboldt-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humboldt also considered the likelihood of ancient links between Europe and the Americas, pointing out remarkable similarities between the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/nahuatl\/\">Nahuatl<\/a> and Greek languages. An example of which is the Aztecan Nahuatl language\u2019s <em>teo-cali <\/em>(god\u2019s house) and the Greek <em>theoukalia <\/em>(shrine or god\u2019s house).<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Humboldt also claimed that the <a href=\"#Maya\">Mayan<\/a> and ancient Chinese calendars had a common source, an idea adopted by David H. Kelley in\u00a0a paper written decades ago, but only recently published in the journal <em>Pre-Columbiana<\/em>. A review of his work by Tara MacIsaac in <em>Epoch Times<\/em><sup>(b)<\/sup> should also be read. <a href=\"#ColavitoJ\">Jason Colavito<\/a> has offered a sceptical view of that claim<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(a)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/galanopoulos-angelos\/\">Galanopoulos<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bacon-edward\/\">Bacon<\/a> assert<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\"><sup>263<\/sup><\/a><sup>.96]<\/sup> that Humboldt favoured a Mediterranean\u00a0inspiration for the Atlantis drama.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/newly-published-articles-claim-mexican-calendar-derives-from-chinese-original\">https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/newly-published-articles-claim-mexican-calendar-derives-from-chinese-original<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170625011624\/http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n3\/2150907-mayan-calendar-similar-to-ancient-chinese-early-contact\/\">Mayan Calendar Similar to Ancient Chinese: Early Contact? (archive.org)<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u00a0*<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a renowned German scientist and explorer. He spent five years (1799-1804) on an expedition to South America. While there he discovered the Casiquiare River, which links the Amazon and Orinoco rivers. Humboldt expressed the view that Atlantis had possibly been located in America, although in his 1814 book, Personal [&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":[690,2970,2971,43,4345,691,1266,34,1316,5353,5354],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-g-galanopoulos","tag-alexander-von-humboldt","tag-amazon-river","tag-america","tag-david-h-kelley","tag-edward-bacon","tag-jason-colavito","tag-maya","tag-nahuatl","tag-pre-columbiana","tag-tara-macisaac"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","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=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59521,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/59521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}