Uwe Topper (born 1940) is a German amateur researcher and author of books about historic, ethnographic, and anthropological subjects. In 1977, Topper published ''Das Erbe der Giganten'' (''The Legacy of the Giants''), a book about the prehistory of

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and the Western Mediterranean basin. The main thesis interprets the remnant of very early high cultures there as the basis for

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. Although this idea doesn't hold much credibility within mainstream research, his discovery of rock paintings and engravings presented in the book have been favourably received and quoted by academic researchers. Since the late 1990s, Topper is best known as a proponent of

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, with his variant of ''New Chronology'' somewhat between

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and Fomenko's version. Apart from working on ''New Chronology'', Topper has done extensive anthropological research. His works in this field have been partially published in the yearbook of the German Institutum Canarium, as well as in the yearbook of the

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, Spain. He has published scientific articles in German official reviews such as ''Zeitschrift für Ethnologie'' and ''Jahrbuch des Museums für Anthropologie München''. Topper has also written about the

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(''Das letzte Buch'', 1993), about

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beliefs from a historical and ethnological perspective (''Wiedergeburt'', 1988),

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in North Africa (''Sufis und Heilige im Maghreb'', 1984/1991), and popular traditions in Morocco. In 1995, Topper, who by then had got in contact with a group of German researchers including

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, Christoph Marx, and others, who all question the established chronology, decided to take a closer look at the

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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 well-dated facts before 1400 AD. Titles include ''Die Große Aktion'' 'The Big Action''(1998), ''Erfundene Geschichte'' 'Invented History''(1999), ''Fälschungen der Geschichte'' 'Faked History''(2001), and ''ZeitFälschung'' 'Faking Time''(2003). Topper's focus on falsifications in the Middle Ages and modern times has raised interest in the German press.

Books

* 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)The Beginning of the Metal Age, in: Migration and Diffusion vol. 4/no. 14 (Odyssee Editorial 2003) see also http://www.ilya.it/chrono/pages/metallzeiten.htm * 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: ''Kalender-Sprung. Falsche Geschichtsschreibung bestimmt die Zukunft'' (Tübingen) * 2016: ''Das Jahrkreuz. Sprünge im Verlauf der Zeit'' (Tübingen)

References

External links

Revising Chronology
– chronology criticism in four languages, featuring around 250 articles by Uwe Topper and others {{DEFAULTSORT:Topper, Uwe Proponents of alternative chronologies Living people 1940 births Writers from Berlin Place of birth missing (living people)