{"id":3379,"date":"2010-06-08T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:11:39","slug":"herrmann-albert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/herrmann-albert\/","title":{"rendered":"Herrmann, Albert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Albert<\/strong> H<\/strong>errmann <\/strong>(1886-1945)<\/strong> was Professor of Geography at Berlin University. He was very interested in oriental geography and is perhaps best known for his 1935, Historical and Commercial Atlas of China<\/em>, which was widely used<\/p>\n

His other passion was Atlantis, so between 1927 and 1931 he declared support for Borchardt<\/a>\u2019s northwest Africa\u00a0location theory in a number of publications. In 1938 he used is influence to mount a large exhibition in Berlin about Atlantis(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

He agreed that a large dried-up saltwater lake in Tunisia<\/a> called Shott el Djerid<\/a> was originally Lake Tritonis<\/a> and was known during Solon\u2019s time as the ‘Atlantic Sea’ and further claimed that it had been the location of Atlantis; a theory supported by a number of investigators. <\/b>In more recent times, Charles A. Rogers <\/a>is one such advocate of this identification(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Herrmann suggested that it was the result of an upheaval of the land, which extended a land barrier between the Shott and the sea. He locates the Pillars of Heracles where this barrier was created. Anton Mifsud<\/a> has pointed out that the 1st<\/sup> century BC writer, Apollonius<\/a> Rhodius, located the Strait of Heracles in ancient Syrtis Minor, now the Gulf of Gab\u00e9s<\/a>, apparently supporting Herrmann\u2019s contention. At one point,\u00a0Herrmann cited as Atlantis, the village of Rhelissa, near the mouth of the old River Tritonis, which flowed into the Gulf of Gabes.<\/p>\n

Herrmann disagreed with Plato\u2019s 9,000 years and proposed that he had instead been referring to the 13th<\/sup> or 14th<\/sup> century BC.<\/p>\n

Finally, Herrmann, in an effort to match this location with the Platonic narrative, felt obliged to reduce its dimensions<\/a> by a factor of thirty. He claimed that the priest or interpreter\u00a0at Sais<\/a> had erred in the conversion of the Egyptian \u2018schoinos<\/a>\u2019 into Greek stadia. The schoinos was adopted by the Greeks,<\/span> where it must be noted that it, as well as the Geek stadion, had variable regional values; the number of schoeni per stadion varied between 30 and 120.<\/p>\n

In a later book[<\/sup>386<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup>, Herrmann shifted his view from his original stance suggesting that Tunisia had been just a colony under the influence of a culture originating in Friesland, later to become famous as the source of the O<\/em>era<\/em> L<\/em>inda<\/em> B<\/em>ook<\/em> <\/a>(c)<\/sup>. It is not impossible that the introduction of a Northern European slant to his theories was the consequence of political pressure in Germany at the time, typified by Borchardt being imprisoned because of his Jewish background. Vidal-Naquet<\/a> describes Herrmann as \u2018an avowed Nazi\u2019 [580<\/a>.121]<\/sup> so pressure may not have been necessary. (a) <\/sup>His revised conclusions appear to mirror the views of fellow Nazi, Hermann Wirth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150620125511\/https:\/\/what-when-how.com\/the-atlantis\/they-found-atlantis-to-tlaloc\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(b) <\/sup>https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/36855091\/Atlantis_Once_Lost_Now_Found<\/a><\/p>\n

(c) <\/sup>https:\/\/atlantisforschung.de\/index.php?title=Albert_Ludwig_Herrmann:_Ein_friesisches_Atlantis_in_Tunesien<\/a><\/p>\n

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