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Aschbach, born in Germany, had studied in Heidelberg but worked as a professor at the Vienna University. Around 1860 he developed the critical method which allowed him to discover the faking of Roswitha von Gandersheim (Hrotsvith) and can serve as model for future research into the chaos of Renaissance fakes. He was an excellent arabist and, as a professor, very admired in Vienna; the Emperor even accorded him a nobility degree.

The fundament of Aschbach's proceeding when analysing source material is: only the content can show us if a document is faked, because the material conditions - such as parchment, writing etc. - might be imitated in a perfect way, especially when there are no other pieces to draw a comparison.

Baldauf worked as a professor at the University of Basle. During the last years of the 19th. century he studied the chronicles about Charlemagne, said to be written in the 9th and 11th century and found out that the language they're written in must be much more recent. He applied the same lingüistic research method to the Roman authors and came to the conclusion that they are all Renaissance fakes, too. The Roman poets used stylistic ressources such as rhyme and alliteration! Not only Horace, Ovid and Caesar, also Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Aristoteles were, according to Baldauf, "children of one century: the 14th. / 15th. Our Romans and Greeks were the Italian humanists".

Friedrich, Dr. rer. nat., studied philosophie of science and history of science and reached his doctor's degree in 1974 in Munich with a thesis about the natural sciences of the 17th century. During four decades he was activele participating in and focussing on controversies between unconventional researchers and scholars and the mainstream academic world. Many of his publications try to raise consciousness of the fact, that scientific views and cosmogonies have always a temporary and provisional character and therefore should be always considered with healthy scepticism. He believes that our universities need badly an institution which guarantees that a broad range of different views can be taught, a measure that would surely lead to an 'outburst' of knowledge and science.

Friedrich wrote a number of articles for 'Efodon-Synesis' , a German magazine which he also led as co-editor during several years. He has good contacts to the international circles of he chronological critic and his articles in French and English have won him many friends.

Gabowitsch, who owns a ScD degree, lives in Germany since 1980. Between 1981 and 2003 he directed the Department of Mathematic Models at the Research Center of Karlsruhe. He is active as translator and publisher, has written more than 100 publications in Estian, Russian, English and German and leads the research on Asian History and ancient technologies.

In 1999 Gabowitsch founded the Karlsruhe Historic Forum and in 2002, together with Uwe Topper, that of Potsdam. Both celebrate meetings and lectures every month. Thanks to his knowledge of Russian, Gabowitsch is the most important link between the German and the Russian circles and the one who spreads Morosow's and Fomenko's theories in Germany. Since 2000 he maintains a website which offers a broad range of articles by different authors and a forum for debates. The address is www.jesus1053.com

Geise, a graphic technician, is since more than ten years the publisher of the magazine Synesis which offers its space to many authors who participate in the chronology debate. As cofounder and member of the Steering Board of Efodon - European Society for ancient tecnologies and subjects peripheric to Science, he has done much research on the Celtic walls. Together with Th. Riemer he developed a new concept to understand the classic Roman history. He maintains an own website: www.glgeise.de

Germon originates from Orleans and worked mainly in Paris. Member of the then very important order of the Society of Jesus, he published - like many colleagues, but with more success to get it known - an extensive study of the falsifications that had been handed down during the last generations and incorporated into historiography. Against Jean Mabillon he could demonstrate that a great number of diplomes, chronicals, papal correspondence and accounts of councils of the church were inventions specially aimed to introduce certain theological ideas. The title of his main work would read in English as: "Of the old frankish royal documents and the art how to know what is authentic and what false."

Heinsohn studied Philosophie, Economy and Sociology in Berlin, and obtained his PhD in 1973. Since 1984 he teaches at the University Bremen (Germany). He was one of the first German critics of chronology and in 1982 co-founder, together with Ch. Marx, Ch. Blöss and H.Illig, of the Society for the Reconstruction of the History of Humankind and Nature (GRMNG).

His first chronological book The Sumerians never existed ( 1988), based on clear historical and, above all, stratigraphical facts, showed that the History of Mesopotamia and Egypt is 2000 years too long, being the mistake due to the dates of the Bible. Heinsohn has published also books about the Egypt, about the Middle Ages, the persecution of witches, the history of religion and the development of money.

Illig, who owns a PhD, lives as a analyst and publisher in Gräfelfing (Munich, Germany). 1982 he was, together with Ch. Marx, Ch. Blöss und G. Heinsohn, one of the founders and secretary of the Society for Reconstruction of the History of Humankind and Nature (GRMNG). Since 1989 he publishes together with Heinsohn the quarterly bulletin "Vorzeit-Frühzeit-Gegenwart" (VFG, 'Prehistory - Protohistory-Present'), in 1995 renamed as "Zeitensprünge (ZS, "Time Bolts "), which in the early 90ies was an important platform for nearly every author active in the chronology debate.

Due to his participation in mass media debates, Illig is one of the best known German authors among the critics of History. Since 1994 he supports the idea that the Middle Ages were stretched by 297 years, to cut out between 614 and 911 AD. First a courageous, even shocking, idea, this theory is today considered conservative by many critical authors, because it considers the History before 614 as correctly documented. [See also the review by U. Topper Chronologie und Katastrophismus in German]

Johnson worked as a professor for Classic Literature at New College in South Hampstead, England. He started analysing the Bible in a critical way, following the path of Baur and Harnack untersuchte. From 1894 onwards, once retired, Johnson, who had already received harsh critics after publishing some of his new ideas, wrote the result of his life-long research down in form of a book called "The Pauline Epistles". And the result is quite revolutionary:

The Christian church was created in the Benedictine monasteries of France (Paris and Lyon) around 1500. The classical 'Fathers of the Church' were written by poorly skilled monks, the New Testament follows later. There are no older texts, and the content allows to find out the historical moment: the invention of printing. Martin Luther's reform was the first attempt to block the expansion of the French Catholic Church; before that there was no church at all.

These thesis are the most radical ones we know; the are based, however, on Hardouin. Morosow and Fomenko knew Johnson's books and used them for their research.

A school teacher working in Hannover, Kammeier researched since 1923 the German History. In his first book, written in 1926 but only published in 1935, he could show that all diplomas and manuscripts of the Middel Ages are falsified. He bases his arguments on a detailed analysis of all known copies and discovers that we never can lay our hand on originals, nor on direct copies of those but only on second or third-hand copies which differ always in certain points... and that seems to be intended. Most of the diplomas mention several dates, but those can never brought into concordance, which is highly suspect.

Kammeiers third work, published first as a series of articles and compiled in 1982, showed that the evolution of Christianity cannot have taken place in the way we are told. His work was not recognized by the contemporary scholars and he died in extreme poverty in Thuringia, Germany. It was not until the 90ies, when his books became an important fundament for the critics of chronology [Compare the two reviews by Uwe Topper Die Fälschung der deutschen Geschichte und Der zweite große Angriff]

Member of the Order of the Society of Jesus, Lacunza adopted the name of the famous Spanish Hebraic theologian Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra and his works are often published under this name. Already during his lifetime he was regarded as one of the greatest capacities in Biblical knowledge ever. His main concern was to develop a new concept of the genesis of the world based on the sacred texts explaining dislocations of the earth as a whole in historical times such as jolts off the earth rotaional axis. Thus he created catastrophism in a scientific way that influenced many a writer from Chili to Russia up to modern times.

His great opus (written in very fine and popular spanish) appeared in 1796 in Isla de Leon (Cádiz, Spain) and had a number of larger reeditions as well as translations (in English it appeared at Ackermann in London 1827), but was banished by the Inquisition from 1812 onwards with growing intensity so that is was nearly forgotten when an abbreviated french translation reappeared 1934 (2° 1963) in Switzerland adding to the understanding of Hörbiger and later Velikovsky. Uwe Topper was deeply grateful to Lacunzas ideas (1973; see also 1993).

The French theologian Launoy is known as "the tumbler of saints" because with his critical view an important number of so far venerated saints of the church were driven into oblivion because they proved to be pure fantasies. Working together with a group of friends in Paris he could claim some success in cleaning the barn but finally was banished and his writings were destroyed before being published. They had been saved though and were printed in Calvinist Geneva half a century later.

Lüling is contributor to "Chrono-Logic". For more biographic details see Günter Lüling

Lüling studied Theology, Sociology and Islamic Sciences. During his work in Syria - directing the Goethe-Institut of Aleppo - he acquired a thorough knowledge of the Arabic languages and thus was able to reach a surprising conclusion: Around one third of the chapters of the Koran are originally arabic christian songs which made up an early religious book, later transformed into the Koran. The Kaaba was formerly a Byzantine church and the Prophet Mohammed didn't fight against pagan but christian Arabs, thus the 'idols' he destroyed in the Kaaba were no other things than images of saints. The early Islam began as a jewish-christian sect and only centuries later was defined as known today.

Lüling locates the birth of Islam in the 5th or 6th century; sticking thus to the conventional chronology. Although he still doesn't integrate the possibility of a shortened chronology in his work, his ideas fit very well in the new vision of a shorter history. He published his findings in 1974, but those were never accepted by his colleagues. Only since 2004, Lüling's ideas have started to be discussed in Germany.

Widely known in Germany and abroad because of his publicist and political actions - he worked as chief editor for the Bild journal and has published several books about economic problems - Martin is specialist on ancient coins and manuscripts of which he owns a number. He has a broad knowledge about the evolution of money and has written about Greek, Roman and Byzantin coins.

He acquired two doctorates (in history and economy) qualifying him thus for research work in chronology which he has done with acknowledged success demonstrated in lectures and articles. His incentive for the thesis of the late start of Christianism was supported by Topper (1998) and proves to be accurate as more authors dig into the field.

Marx, the oldest of the German-speaking critics of chronology, coordinates since more than 20 years the Podium for Academic Freedom in Basle (Switzerland), where he publishes his own works as well as nearly forgotten texts by older authors. His personal contact with Imm. Velikovsky - whose books he translated into German - has contributed the spread in Germany the Catastrophs Theory. In 1982 he founded together with G. Heinsohn, Ch. Blöss, H.Illig and others the Society for the Reconstruction of the History of Humankind and Nature (GRMNG) which published regularly bulletins during 6 years. Thus he laid the fundaments of the modern chronology research. Still very activ, Marx leads the debate on the internet level and nearly all of his publications can be accessed on-line on his website Podium für Akademische Freiheit (www.paf.li)

Zainab Angelika Müller studied pedagogy in Münster and Munich and worked between 1977 and 1980 as production director, lector and editor in a publishing house focussed on women's subject. Thrilled by Immanuel Velikovsky's theories about catastrophs in the history of humankind, she was in 1984 among the founders of the Gesellschaft zur Rekonstruktion der Menschheits- und Naturgeschichte (GRMNG e.V., Society for the Reconstruction of the History of Humankind and Nature). In this context she gave lectures and published in VFG/ZS and other critical magazines. Her special interest belongs to the history of symbols and religions.

Niemitz is professor for Technical History at the Leipzig University (Germany). He was the first to rediscover Kammeier and the 'hole' in the Middle Ages and introduced the idea of phantom years in the German History. As a fundament for his theories, he analysed the technical methods of dating historic facts - such as dendrochronolgy and C-14 - and discovered surprising errors. Together with Ch. Blöss he published these results in 1997. In 1994 he founded, together with Blöss and Uwe Topper, the Berlin Historic Meetings, which he still coordinates. Since 1991 he has published a large number of lectures and articles.

Olagüe was born in northern Spain and studied in France. In 1938 he started to write about History and in 1969 published, first in French, his surprising book "The Arabs never invaded Spain" which shows through a detailed research that there is no such thing as an Arab invasion: a military campaign from Egypt through Northern Africa, without a navy force, is impossible to imagine. Only a peaceful mission and a voluntary acceptance of the new religion can explain the expansion of the Arab language.

He explains how early 'Islam' in Spain is a religion different from modern Islam and closer to Arianism. His book, somehow updated, was published in Spanish in 1974.

Pfister works as a professor in Freiburg (Switzerland) where he studied and reached his PhD in Modern History. Since the 90ies he focusses also on Ancient History and Middle Ages. He believes that the really documented History does start as late as the 17th century and that all older documents were written after that date. Pfister does base his theories frequently on the observation of the facts in the Swiss region where he lives. He publishes his ideas not only in books and magazines but also on his homepage www.dillum.ch

Sarre is contributor to "Chrono-Logic". For more biographic details see François de Sarre

François de Sarre works as a zoologist specialised on Fish and the evolution of vertebrates. He has published many articles about the Mediterranean Ichthyofauna. Since 1985 he works on a subject still quite unknown to the public: the theory of the initial bipedalism of vertebrates. In 1988 he founds in Nice / France the Centre for Studies and Research of Initial Bipedalism and publishes the magazine Bipedia. In the 90ies he contacts with the group of German researchers who question the chronology and writes about the catastrophes that shaped the History of the Mediterranean, based on zoological and geological facts.

Sir Galahad was the pseudonym used by Bertha Diener, daughter of a fabric-owner in Vienna. In 1904, the writer left her husband, the well-known historian Friedrich Eckstein, and started to travel around. She wrote for magazines, translated other authors (such as Prentice Mulford) and wrote books. The most famous one is "Mütter und Amazonen" (Mothers and Amazons), first published in 1932. This analysis of the History of humankind, especially of the female part of it, written from a very personal viewpoint, has owned her enthusiastic followers and harsh enemies; nobody was left indifferent. The women's movement consider is sometimes as an important pillar for its philosophy.

Her description of her Creta journey (1924) is useful for the critic of chronology, as well as several minor writings, today quite difficult to access.

Spengler, a philosopher and historian, lived since 1911 in Munich as a researcher who was not too shy to position himself also on political questions of the moment. Modern critic of chronology and history has been influenced by his famous book "The decline of the West" which was published shortly after World War I, but even more by his much less known posthumous work "Early Times of World History", which is not more than a collection of notes and papers. Among these, the most related to the subject of shortened chronology is a lecture about the early American cultures, which offers quite original positions. Spengler died in 1936, somehow avoided by the circles then in power in Germany, due to his straightforward openness.

Topper is co-founder and webmaster of "Chrono-Logic". For more biographic details see Ilya U. Topper

Ilya U. Topper was raised in Morocco. He works as a free-lance journalist based in Southern Spain. Since 1994 he began to take interest in chronological issues and, speaking Arab, specialised on Islamic history. He works together with Uwe Topper on calendar issues. Since 2005 he tries to spread the critical theories in Spain, where they were so far unknown, by launching the website "Chrono-Logic".net.

Topper is co-founder of "Chrono-Logic" and one of its most active contributors. For more biographic details see Uwe Topper

Topper studied some semesters of Fine Arts and Islam and lived as a free-lance artist and writer in Southern Asia, Northern Africa and finally in Western Europe; with Berlin as a permanent reference. His field research in ethnological subjects and rock paintings led him to the conviction that the catastrophs that happened throughout the history of humankind can well be documented in the landscape, during excavations and by reading ancient texts. He published this findings in 1977. As co-founder of the Berlin History Meetings he focusses his research since 1993 on chronology.

The German researcher Illig has characterised the basic ideas of this modern catastrophist in two accurate sentences: "The Jewish-Russian psychoanalyst, who first wrote in German, identified Mars and Venus as a threat to our Earth. Humankind, in that epoch, could only live with this mortal danger by banning of their minds the memory of the repeatedly outbursting catastrophs and converting the planets into gods by offering them ritual sacrifices".

This thesis of banning the memory is one of the earliest fundaments of the modern chronological research and cannot be neglected. On the other hand, Velikovsky still stuck to a chronology fixed strictly on the Bible. During decades, his views didn't make it into the mainstream science; only a new translation by Christoph Marx, in 1978, made Velikovsky known in Germany, where he found many followers.

Wagner is contributor to "Chrono-Logic". For more biographic details see Karin Wagner

Karin Wagner, director of a private academy, assessor and responsible for training of teachers, is working since 30 years on the critical reconstruction of the family tree of a noble French family, as well as researching in archives in whole Europe, specifically Italy.

Winzeler is contributor to "Chrono-Logic". For more biographic details see Peter Winzeler

Dr. phil. Peter Winzeler studied theology in Zürich, showing specific interest for the history of religions and the orientalistic school; in Berlin he researched the anti-Jew-position of the historical-critical methods of explaining the Bible. Today he teaches Theology of the Reformation at the University of Bern.

During the 80ies, Winzeler published several articles at the bulletin of the Society for the Reconstruction of the History of Humankind and Nature (GRMNG) and he is still one of the most important contributors to the newsletter "Zeitensprünge", edited by H. Illig. He takes position against some radical solutions of the chronological problems as proposed by Fomenko or Christoph Marx and works towards a revision of chronology which keeps in mind the consequences of this revision for our present culture.

*1938 (Buch/ Berlin)
Göttingen · Germany

Prof. emerit. Dr. Zarnack studied physiscs and maths at the universities of Berlin and Munich writing his thesis on the wing movements of the locust. From 1986 to 2003 he worked as a professor in Göttingen. His special interest in the origins of christianism led him to a decisive new thesis which changes the ideological set as well as the chronological one. Furthermore he challenges the indogermanists view of parentage and development of Germanic languages by his new insight. His comments on Kammeier (in the new edition 2000) are precious and add much to understanding of this eminent figure which stands at the start of our research into the historiography of medieval times.