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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 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.

Since the late 1990s he is best known as a proponent of radically rewriting chronology, with his variant of New Chronology somehat between Heribert Illig's phantom time hypothesis and Fomenko's.

His works in this field have been partially published in Almogaren, the newsletter of the Institutum Canarium and in the yearbook of University of Cádiz (Spain). He has published scientific articles in German official reviews like Zeitschrift für Ethnologie and Jahrbuch des Museums für Anthropologie München, and others.

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 and Berber makes him focus especially on North African subjects.

Books by Uwe Topper [link]

• 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)

External links [link]

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