Hans Schindler (19 March 1901 –

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, 12 December 1982), authornames H.S. Bellamy and Hans Schindler Bellamy, was an English professor in Vienna and an author on

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. His books investigate the work of

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

Hanns Hörbiger Johannes "Hanns" Evangelist Hörbiger (29 November 1860, in Atzgersdorf – 11 October 1931, in Mauer), better known as Hanns Hörbiger, was an Austrian engineer from Vienna with roots in Tyrol. He took part in the construction of the Budapes ...

and German

selenographer Selenography is the study of the surface and physical features of the Moon (also known as geography of the Moon, or selenodesy). Like geography and areography, selenography is a subdiscipline within the field of planetary science. Historica ...

Philipp Fauth Philipp Johann Heinrich Fauth (19 March 1867 — 4 January 1941) was a German selenographer. Biography Born in Bad Dürkheim, he worked as a schoolteacher. His interest in astronomy was sparked when his father showed him Coggia's comet. As an ...

and the now-defunct Cosmic Ice (''Glacial Cosmogony'') Theory. Hans Schindler was an English teacher at the

Folk High School Folk high schools (also ''Adult Education Center'', Danish: ''Folkehøjskole;'' Dutch: ''Volkshogeschool;'' Finnish: ''kansanopisto'' and ''työväenopisto'' or ''kansalaisopisto;'' German: ''Volkshochschule'' and (a few) ''Heimvolkshochschule;'' ...

in the Vienna district of

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of 1938 both fled to Britain, where he became a BBC-surveillor of German radio broadcasts. In 1946 he returned to Vienna and continued his work for the Folk High Schools. He died in 1982 and was buried in

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(

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

), where his son lived; his wife then also settled in Israel, where she died in 2015 at the age of 102. In 1936 his first book on the Cosmic Ice Theory (''Moons, Myths and Man'') was published under the pen-name H.S. Bellamy by the London Publisher Faber & Faber Ltd.According to The Faber Archive and his publisher's index card record ''H.S. Bellamy'' may indeed be a pseudonym of ''Hans Schindler''
Faber and Faber Ltd
The book describes Hörbiger's theory in detail, as well as its application to world myths. In 1945 he published a study on

Book of Genesis The Book of Genesis (from Greek ; Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית ''Bəreʾšīt'', "In hebeginning") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, ( "In the beginning") ...

; his subsequent books develop the World Ice Theory in light of other Bible books, the

Atlantis Atlantis ( grc, Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, , island of Atlas (mythology), Atlas) is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works ''Timaeus (dialogue), Timaeus'' and ''Critias (dialogue), Critias'' ...

myth, and the

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archaeological site in Bolivia. The books he wrote with Peter Allen were awarded by the Sociedad Arqueológica de Bolivia in 1958. In 1971 he finished a book by the deceased right-wing author Rudolf Elmayer von Vestenbrugg (1881-1970) ''Eingriffe aus den Kosmos'' (Interventions from Outer Space). In 1975 Schindler delivered a lecture at the 2nd World Congress of the Ancient Astronaut Society in Zürich.

Citations

:"... considers the Moon to be a metallo-mineral body covered with a sphere of ice... captured out of transterrestrial space where, probably not so very long ago, it existed as an independent planet ...". :"...

Hydrogen Hydrogen is the chemical element with the symbol H and atomic number 1. Hydrogen is the lightest element. At standard conditions hydrogen is a gas of diatomic molecules having the formula . It is colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, an ...

and

oxygen Oxygen is the chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group in the periodic table, a highly reactive nonmetal, and an oxidizing agent that readily forms oxides with most elements as wel ...

exist in the universe in their natural combination H₂O, water, in its cosmic form: ice". :"When a block of this 'Cosmic Ice' plunges into a glowing star the impact generates heat. The ice turns into steam. Thermo-chemical decomposition splits the steam into its constituents. Most of the oxygen is bound to the stellar matter, producing more heat. Practically all the hydrogen is exhaled into space. The star-matter-bound oxygen and the 'spatial' hydrogen form the vast stores out of which the Cosmic Ice is generated and its supplies repleted". (''Moons, Myths and Man'', 1936)

Works

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Moons, Myths and Man: A Reinterpretation.
' Faber & Faber: London, 1936, also 1949 revised *''The Book of Revelation is History.''Faber & Faber: London, 1942 *''Built before the Flood. The problem of the Tiahuanaco ruins.'' Faber & Faber: London, 1943 *''In the Beginning God. A new scientific vindication of cosmogonic myths in the Book of Genesis.'' Faber & Faber: London, 1945 *''The Atlantis Myth.'' Faber & Faber: London, 1948. 8o. *''Life History of our Earth. Based on the geological application of Hoerbiger's Theory.'' Faber & Faber: London, 1951 *''The Calendar of Tiahuanaco. A disquisition on the time measuring system of the oldest civilization in the world.'' Faber & Faber: London, 1956, with Peter Allan *''The Great Idol of Tiahuanaco. An interpretation in the light of the Hoerbiger theory of satellites of the glyphs carved on its surface.'' Faber & Faber: London, 1959, with Peter Allan

References

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