{"id":3368,"date":"2010-06-08T17:29:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T17:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2026-03-14T12:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:32:55","slug":"hennig-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hennig-richard\/","title":{"rendered":"Hennig, Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard<\/strong> H<\/strong>ennig<\/strong> (1874-1951)<\/strong> was a German student of ancient geography. He drew on the work of Adolf Schulten<\/a> and Otto Jessen<\/a> to support his conviction that the Scheria<\/a> referred to by Homer<\/a> was in fact Atlantis. Hennig drew up a list of similarities between the two[<\/sup>613<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> but as N. Zhirov<\/a> remarked, an equally long list of discrepancies could be compiled leaving the question still open.<\/p>\n

In 1925, Hennig argued forcefully that Atlantis had controlled C\u00e1diz<\/a> in Spain where Tartessos was located. He claimed to have demonstrated that the Atlantean kingdom of Gadeirus <\/a>controlled Atlantic Spain during pre-Classical times.<\/p>\n

Eberhard<\/a>\u00a0Za<\/a>ngger<\/a> noted [483<\/a>.109] that in a 1927 article Hennig “investigated the root of the term ‘the Pillars of Heracles<\/a>‘ and concluded that it was not initially applied to the Straits of Gibraltar but to another locality at the end of the Greek sphere of influence.”<\/p>\n

Hennig also saw similarities between Atlantis and Tartessos<\/a> and believed the Greeks of Plato\u2019s era thought of Tartessos as having disappeared no more than a hundred years earlier. This idea would have placed the demise of Tartessos\/Atlantis around 500 BC, in other words after<\/strong> Solon\u2019s visit to Egypt!<\/p>\n

According to Atlantisforschung.de, “It should be noted that\u00a0Richard Hennig\u00a0later apparently turned away from the ‘Tartessos\u00a0=\u00a0Atlantis’ assumption and ‘converted’ to the Heligoland<\/a> localization of Pastor\u00a0J\u00fcrgen Spanuth<\/a>, who said with satisfaction: ”\u00a0After Hennig got to know my work, he wrote he said that he had completely changed his opinion and agreed with my views ‘completely’. So Hennig also came to the conclusion that the\u00a0Basileia\u00a0of the\u00a0Atlantis report\u00a0is identical to the\u00a0Basileia\u00a0of the Phaeacia and the\u00a0Basileia\u00a0of the Pytheas report, which are in the The mouth of the\u00a0Eider\u00a0lay on this side of Helgoland<\/em> “.(a)<\/sup><\/p>\n

(a) <\/sup> Richard Hennig \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Hennig (1874-1951) was a German student of ancient geography. He drew on the work of Adolf Schulten and Otto Jessen to support his conviction that the Scheria referred to by Homer was in fact Atlantis. Hennig drew up a list of similarities between the two[613] but as N. Zhirov remarked, an equally long list […]<\/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":[422,1983,884,113,2309,738,123,232,423,1023,1473,221,13],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adolf-schulten","tag-atlantisforschung","tag-cadiz","tag-eberhard-zangger","tag-gadeirus","tag-heligoland","tag-homer","tag-jurgen-spanuth","tag-otto-jessen","tag-pillars-of-herakles","tag-richard-hennig","tag-scheria","tag-tartessos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","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=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66783,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/66783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}