Günther Kehnscherper
Günther Kehnscherper (born May 23, 1929 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , † June 23, 2004 in Berlin , Germany ) was a German Protestant theologian and archaeologist.
Practical theology
Günther Kehnscherper was the son of the Protestant theologian Gerhard Kehnscherper . From 1955 to 1966 he initially worked as a parish priest in Altenhagen in Western Pomerania in the Altentreptow district .
After his dissertation on the history of tradition investigations into memories of the Santorinkatastrophe in the Book of Revelation at the Theological Faculty of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , he was supported by the CDU of the GDR in 1966 Lecturer in Practical Theology at the Humboldt University of Berlin , before he finally in 1970 he moved to the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald as a professor of practical theology (where he succeeded his father in this chair). After the end of his teaching activity in 1993 he moved back from Greifswald to Berlin, where he died in 2004.
In search of Atlantis
In addition to his area of expertise, Kehnscherper dealt in the 1960s and 1970s with the prehistory and early history of the Mediterranean region, in particular with research into the Atlantis problem. Kehnscherper was considered one of the few defenders of the controversial Atlantist theses of the West German theologian Jürgen Spanuth , but came to different research results and a more differentiated judgment. In his 1978 publication “In Search of Atlantis”, published by Urania Verlag , he interpreted the Atlantis report as a retelling of Egyptian reports about the sea peoples attacks around 1200 BC , like Spanuth . BC and as a result of a migration of peoples triggered by the flooding of northern European coastal areas (" Great Migration "). Unlike Spanuth, however, Kehnscherper identified the Sea Peoples not mainly as Germanic northern peoples, but as a coalition with northern peoples and Balkan peoples led by Central European Urnfielders . B. the Hungarian archaeologist Amália Mozsolics.
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Jürgen Spanuth (six theses, quoted from "... and yet: Atlantis riddles" , 1953/55) |
Günther Kehnscherper (nine theses, quoted from "In search of Atlantis" , 1978/90) |
| The Atlantis account describes events from around 1200 BC. Chr. | Plato used messages that, according to Egyptian information and archaeological finds, also in Athens in the late Bronze Age between 1450 and 1200 BC. Are to be dated. |
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A comparison of the historical information in the Atlantis Report with the contemporary Egyptian texts shows that Plato's repeated assertion that the Atlantis Report is only a retelling of ancient Egyptian texts is true. |
A comparison of Plato's statements with the Egyptian texts shows that Plato's repeated assertion that his report is a retelling of ancient Egyptian texts is true. |
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The comparison between the information in the Atlantis Report and the contemporary Egyptian texts shows that the "Atlanteans" of the Atlantis Report without any doubt with the "North Sea Peoples" at the time of Ramses III. which, according to the Egyptian texts, consist of the three tribes "Phrst", "Sakar" and "Denen" are identical. |
The comparison between the information given by Plato, the inscriptions by Medinet Habu , Homer's songs about the Hyperboreans and the island of the Phaeacians, and the archaeological finds shows that Plato's Atlanteans are identical with the sea peoples of the time of Ramses III, i.e. the early Urnfield people. |
| All the news about the "Atlanteans" at Plato is related to the great migration of the early Urnfield people and their attack on Mycenae , Athens and Egypt. | |
| The name "Atlanter" for the Sea Peoples-Urnfield People Coalition is an invention of Plato. | |
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The homeland of these “North Sea Peoples” was, according to contemporary Egyptian texts, “on the islands in the great water circle”, “in the north”, “at the ends of the world”. This description cannot be taken to mean the Mediterranean Sea, which these northern peoples entered shortly before 1200 BC. Broke in. The “great water circle in the north at the ends of the world” can only be equated with the ocean in the north, ie the North Sea area. Of course, the Baltic Sea area is also included in this area, because at that time there was no distinction between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. |
The description of Basileia, the capital of the ten kingdoms of Atlantis, is a construction of Plato with very few "real" building blocks. The sources give no precise information about the home of the Atlanteans / Sea Peoples. The agricultural structure of the Bronze Age in the Urnfield area did not have any palace and rule centers comparable to the Mediterranean area. Plato described Basileia as a Greek from the Athens Polis imagined a mighty barbarian city. |
| It was not Atlantis that sank in the North Sea, but a small piece of the northern settlement area of the “Atlanteans”. | |
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The sunken royal island of these peoples, of whose origin not only the Atlantis account, but also the contemporary Egyptian texts tell, must therefore have been "in the ocean in the north", i.e. in the North and Baltic Seas. The information in the Atlantis report about the location of this royal island is so clear and precise that it can be localized without any doubt. The royal island of the Atlantean North Sea Peoples was between Helgoland and Eiderstedt. |
The vague information from Plato and the Egyptian inscriptions about the sunken King's Island can only refer to the Bronze Age marshes in the North Sea. Only there, between Heligoland and Jutland , were populated areas perished in the ancient horizon during the period in question. The marshes bordered on the northern edge of the Urnenfelderkreis. The fall of the Bronze Age marshes has been proven, but not that it was the royal island of the Urnfield people. Plato's Atlantis consisted of ten kingdoms, but only one area, part of the marshes, sank. However, the Great Migration seems to have started from these northern peripheral areas of the Urnenfelderkreis. |
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The identity of this royal island of the northern Atlantean peoples with the royal island of the Phäakians, which Homer sings about in the Odyssey , is also unequivocally secured. |
The plan of Plato's Atlantis capital could be based on merchant and seafarer reports (Greek: Topoi) about the great Bronze Age cult centers in Brittany and southern England. Plato's ideal city is the oversized plan of Stonehenge in England. |
Publications (selection)
- Michael - Geist u. Shape. A Testimony of Christian Piety Spanning 15 Centuries (1957)
- New references to prehistoric and protohistoric research on the hiking trail of the North and Sea Peoples / Atlanteans (1963)
- Santorin - Traditional historical research on memories of the Santorin catastrophe in the Revelation of John, chapter 6, 12-15; 8, 5–12 and 9, 2–10 (1965, dissertation)
- The Great October Socialist Revolution and the Churches of Central Europe. Booklets from Burgscheidungen, 162 (1967)
- Crete Mycenae Santorin - About the origin, bloom and decline of the Cretan-Mycenaean civilization in the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC u. Z. (1973)
- In Search of Atlantis ( 1978 Accent Series )
- Hünengrab and Bannkreis (1983)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Günter Bischoff, Bernhard Beier: Günther Kehnscherper - a researcher portrait
- ↑ Wolf Krötke : The Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University 1945–2010 . In: Heinz-Elmar Tenorth (Ed.): Self-assertion of a vision . tape 6 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2010, p. 61 .
- ↑ a b Günther Kehnscherper: In search of Atlantis. 4th edition. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1990, p. 112 and 122 f.
- ↑ Jürgen Spanuth: and yet: Atlantis riddles . Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1955, p. 5 f. or 13, 16, 26, 30, 76 and 95.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kehnscherper, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rio de Janeiro |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 2004 |
| Place of death | Berlin |