Uwe Topper

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Uwe Topper (born 1940) is a German researcher and author of books about historic, ethnographic and anthropological subjects. Since the late '90s he is also known as an active member of the New Chronology gathering.

After decades of field research in Asia, Europe and North Africa, Topper published in 1977 Das Erbe der Giganten (The Legacy of the Giants), a book about the prehistory of Spain and the Western Mediterranean basin. The main thesis interpretes the remnant of very early high cultures there as the basis for Plato's Atlantis.

Due to his unconventional chronological views, this book served as an inspiration for many later researchers who look for a different approach to early history, but was not accepted by most of Germany's academic scholars - unlike Topper's field research from the Hindukush to the Canary Islands, which received quite a good echo and confirmed him as an important voice in several fields as rock paintings, tribal rites or Berber language. His works in this field have been partially published in Almogaren, the newsletter of the Institutum Canarium (IC) and in the yearbook of Cadix University (Spain).

Topper has also written about the Book of Revelation (Das letzte Buch, 1993), about Reincarnation believings from a historical and ethnological perspective (Wiedergeburt, 1988), Sufism in North Africa (Sufis und Heilige im Maghreb, 1984/1991) and similar subjects. He lives in Berlin.

In 1995, Topper, who had by then got in contact with a group of German researchers including Gunnar Heinsohn, Heribert Illig, Christoph Marx and others, who all question the established chronology, started to take a closer look on the Middle Ages and published a series of books which try to show that History, as we know it, was created from the 16th century onwards - according to this idea, there are hardly true facts before 1400 AD. Titles include Die Große Aktion [The Big Action](1998) Erfundene Geschichte [Invented History](1999), Fälschungen der Geschichte [Faked History](2001), ZeitFälschung [Faking Time] (2003). His knowledge of Arabic makes him focus especially on Islam-related subjects.

[edit] Books by Uwe Topper

  • 1977: Das Erbe der Giganten. Untergang und Rückkehr der Atlanter (Walter Verl. Olten & Freiburg)
  • 1986: Märchen der Berber (Diederichs, Köln)
  • 1988: Wiedergeburt. Das Wissen der Völker (Rowohlt. Reinbek /Hamburg)
  • 1988: Erdbefragung. Anleitung zur Geomantik (Knaur. Munich)
  • 1988: Arte Rupestre en la Provincia de Cádiz (Cadix' Province Government, Spain)
  • 1991: Sufis und Heilige im Maghreb. Marokkanische Mystik (Diederichs, Cologne)
  • 1993: Das letzte Buch. Die Bedeutung der Offenbarung des Johannes (Hugendubel, Munich)
  • 1993: Cuentos populares de los Bereberes (Miraguano Ed., Madrid)
  • 1998: Die "Große Aktion". Europas erfundene Geschichte (Grabert, Tübingen)
  • 1999: Erfundene Geschichte. Unsere Zeitrechnung ist falsch (Herbig, Munich)
  • 2001: Fälschungen der Geschichte. Von Persephone bis Newtons Zeitrechnung (Herbig, Munich)
  • 2003: horra. Die ersten Europäer (Grabert, Tübingen)
  • 2003: Das Geheimnis des Elsaß. Was geschah damals am Odilienberg? (with Gert Meier and Hermann Zschweigert; Tübingen)
  • 2003: ZeitFälschung. Es begann mit der Renaissance (Herbig, Munich)
  • 2006: KalenderSprung. Falsche Geschichtsschreibung bestimmt die Zukunft (Tübingen)

[edit] External links

  • New Chronology - A page about chronology critic which features around 25 articles written by Uwe Topper, around 12 in English
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