{"id":656,"date":"2010-02-08T13:42:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T13:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/edgar-dacque-new\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:32:03","slug":"edgar-dacque-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/edgar-dacque-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Dacqu\u00e9, Edgar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dacque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21319\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dacque-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"dacque\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dacque-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dacque.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>Edgar<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<b>Dacqu\u00e9<\/b><\/strong> <strong>(1878-1945)<\/strong> was a leading German Professor of Palaeontology. We are told by a Dutch website<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b<\/span><\/sup><sup>)<\/sup><\/span><\/span> that he thought Atlantis to have been situated on a submarine ridge stretching from <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cape-verde-islands\/\">Cape Verde <\/a>to the Caribbean. This sounds like a revised version of the Atlantic <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/landbridges-n\/\">landbridges<\/a> concept that was popular with some scientists at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that he supported (1927) the idea of Cape Verde as the site of Atlantis, but I have been unable to confirm this. His adherence to Theosophy coloured his professional writings, for example with his claim that <em>homo sapiens<\/em> existed at the time of the dinosaurs. Similar ideas are promoted today by other Theosophists, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/john-s-gordon\/\">John S. Gordon<\/a>, who has written two Atlantis related books.<\/p>\n<p>It has been claimed<sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> that Dacqu\u00e9 wrote to Hitler in the 1920\u2019s regarding some of his (Dacqu\u00e9&#8217;s) occult ideas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>a<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191017003008\/https:\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2795\/\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191017003008\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2795\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(<\/sup><sup>b<\/sup><sup>)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190703174759\/http:\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2796\/\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190703174759\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-2796\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar\u00a0Dacqu\u00e9 (1878-1945) was a leading German Professor of Palaeontology. We are told by a Dutch website(b) that he thought Atlantis to have been situated on a submarine ridge stretching from Cape Verde to the Caribbean. This sounds like a revised version of the Atlantic landbridges concept that was popular with some scientists at the end [&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":[58,2288,2290,2289,352,353],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cape-verde","tag-edgar-dacque","tag-hitler","tag-john-s-gordon","tag-landbridges","tag-theosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","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=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66666,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/66666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}