{"id":29403,"date":"2016-01-18T07:14:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T07:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=29403"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:42:02","slug":"gorp-johannes-van-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/gorp-johannes-van-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Goropius Becanus, Johannes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/van-Gorp-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29405\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29405\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/van-Gorp-1.jpg\" alt=\"van Gorp\" width=\"220\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a>Johannes\u00a0<\/strong><strong>G<\/strong><strong>oropius <\/strong><strong>B<\/strong><strong>ecanus (1519-1572) <\/strong>was a Dutch physician and linguist, although he was of the opinion that the Dutch language had been used in the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/eden-2\/\">Garden of Eden<\/a> and was the mother of all other languages<sup>(c)<\/sup> ! We hope his knowledge of medicine was better than his linguistics. He was also one of the first to propose the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/donana-marshes\/\">Do\u00f1ana Marshes<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/andalusia\/\">Andalusia<\/a> as the site of Atlantis<sup>(a)(b)<\/sup>. This can be found in the <em>Hispanica <\/em>section of his <em>Opera<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\"><sup>1437<\/sup><\/a><sup>] <\/sup> published posthumously in 1580.<\/p>\n<p>Goropius also declared that <a href=\"#Tartessos\">Tartessos<\/a> was the biblical <a href=\"#Tarshish\">Tarshish<\/a> and was the capital of Plato&#8217;s Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Location_hypotheses_of_Atlantis%23South\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Location_hypotheses_of_Atlantis#South<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Location_hypotheses_of_Atlantis%23South\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Location_hypotheses_of_Atlantis#South<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johannes_Goropius_Becanus\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johannes_Goropius_Becanus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannes\u00a0Goropius Becanus (1519-1572) was a Dutch physician and linguist, although he was of the opinion that the Dutch language had been used in the Garden of Eden and was the mother of all other languages(c) ! We hope his knowledge of medicine was better than his linguistics. He was also one of the first to [&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":[341,1028,383,4424,4423,14,13],"class_list":["post-29403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andalusia","tag-donana-marshes","tag-garden-of-eden","tag-goropius-becanus","tag-johannes-van-gorp","tag-tarshish","tag-tartessos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29403","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=29403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66553,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29403\/revisions\/66553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}