{"id":31359,"date":"2016-10-12T08:29:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T07:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=31359"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:15:30","slug":"wilhelm-geiger-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wilhelm-geiger-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Geiger, Wilhelm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wilhelm<\/strong><strong> Geiger <\/strong><strong>(1856-1943) <\/strong>was a highly-regarded German orientalist<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Wilhelm-Geiger-1856-1943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-31360\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Wilhelm-Geiger-1856-1943-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"wilhelm-geiger-1856-1943\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>, specialising in Indo-Iranian history and languages. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/joseph-frank\/\">Frank Joseph<\/a> has tried to attribute<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/h-j\/\">0104<\/a>.123] <\/sup> a belief in Atlantis to this important scholar, with a rather ambiguous quotation from his comments<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/g\/\">0597<\/a>.86]<\/sup>\u00a0 regarding \u00a0Alcibiades I.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><sup>*<\/sup><\/span><em>&#8220;Quite unique stands the statement:- &#8216;He was a Greek, or one of those who came forth from the Continent on the other side of the great sea.&#8217; This last expression is very obscure; it sounds too mysterious to designate the Greeks of Asia Minor. Is it perhaps some reminiscence of the passage of the primitive man to the six &#8216;keshvars&#8217;, which took place under Tahmurap? Or of the Atlantis?&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilhelm Geiger (1856-1943) was a highly-regarded German orientalist, specialising in Indo-Iranian history and languages. Frank Joseph has tried to attribute[0104.123] a belief in Atlantis to this important scholar, with a rather ambiguous quotation from his comments[0597.86]\u00a0 regarding \u00a0Alcibiades I. *&#8220;Quite unique stands the statement:- &#8216;He was a Greek, or one of those who came forth [&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":[4927,124,4926],"class_list":["post-31359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alcibiades-i","tag-frank-joseph","tag-wilhelm-geiger"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31359","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=31359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66491,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31359\/revisions\/66491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}