{"id":3460,"date":"2010-06-08T21:44:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T21:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:20:36","slug":"karst-josef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/karst-josef\/","title":{"rendered":"Karst, Josef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Josef<\/strong><strong> K<\/strong><strong>arst <\/strong><strong>(1871-1963)<\/strong> was a German orientalist who became a professor of oriental philology at the University of Strasb<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Karst.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26775\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Karst-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Karst\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Karst-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Karst.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>ourg.<\/p>\n<p>Not too much is known about his life and work, although he is possibly more remembered for his 1931 book, <em>Atlantis under liby-\u00e4thiopische Kulturkreis <\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/k-l\/\"><sup>422<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>, in which he expressed the view that there were <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/two-atlantises\/\">two Atlantises<\/a>, one in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/north-africa\/\">North Africa<\/a> and the other in the Arabian Sea between India and what is now Iran. His ideas were based on his rather eccentric linguistic ideas. A number of other commentators, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hepke-karl-jurgen\/\">J\u00fcrgen Hepke<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spence-james-lewis-thomas-chalmers\/\">Lewis Spence<\/a>, have also proposed two Atlantises.<\/p>\n<p>A more extensive look at his Atlantis theories can be found on the <em>atlantisforschung.de<\/em> website<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantisforschung.de\/index.php?title=Joseph_Karst\">https:\/\/atlantisforschung.de\/index.php?title=Joseph_Karst<\/a> (German)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog\/index.php?title=Joseph_Karst&amp;_x_tr_sl=de&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Joseph Karst \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)<\/a> (English)\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josef Karst (1871-1963) was a German orientalist who became a professor of oriental philology at the University of Strasbourg. Not too much is known about his life and work, although he is possibly more remembered for his 1931 book, Atlantis under liby-\u00e4thiopische Kulturkreis [422], in which he expressed the view that there were two Atlantises, [&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":[1983,3948,2181,78,30,2342],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantisforschung","tag-josef-karst","tag-jurgen-hepke","tag-lewis-spence","tag-north-africa","tag-two-atlantises"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","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=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67121,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/67121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}