Oera Linda Book

The Ura - Linda -Chronik (also called Oera Linda Boek or Himmler's Bible ) is a literary forgery that was made ​​available from 1860 individuals and 1872 appeared for the first time complete and in translation. She pretends to be a language in altfriesischer ( Ingvaeonisch ) wrote a chronicle under gone in the post-glacial floods matriarchal paradise called alt-country ( = " Atlantis in Friesland " ) to be. Although doubts about the authenticity arose early on the work of long time of Atlantis researchers and mystics was highly valued and is still often cited in these circles today as evidence.

Chronology of events

1860 shows Cornelis over de Linden for the first time some leaves his alleged family chronicle a teacher. 1870 expressed for the first time Johan Winkler, an expert on the Frisian language, doubts about the authenticity because it neufriesische language elements were noticed. 1872 published a complete translation of Jan Gerhardus Ottema, who was convinced of the authenticity. In the wake of this publication was kindled in Friesland, a fierce public dispute over the authenticity of the Ura - Linda -Chronik, which soon ended because of overwhelming evidence to the general belief that it was a fake. 1879 appeared for a long time, the last work that deals with the Ura - Linda -Chronik.

1922 attacked the Dutch ethnic philologist Herman Wirth, the theme again; In 1933 the German translation. In the time of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the National Socialism, the book was highly controversial. Wirth, who propagated the authenticity of the Chronicle, was later a co-founder of the Research Foundation Deutsches Ahnenerbe.

2004, the Ura - Linda- Chronicle by historian Goffe Jensma was again unequivocally debunked as a forgery, which was obviously created by the Dutch writer François Haverschmidt with the help of his colleagues Cornelis Over de Linden and Eelco Verwijs in the 19th century, namely as a parody of the Christian Bible.

Bibliographic notice

  • J. G. Ottema (ed.): Thet Oera Linda Bok. Naar een handwriting uit de Dertiende eeuw. Kuipers, Leeuwarden 1872.
  • Herman Wirth: The Ura - Linda -Chronik. Translated and with an introductory historical investigation. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1933.
  • Herman Wirth: The Ura - Linda -Chronik. Publisher of Manufactur, Horn 1993, ISBN 3-88080-902- X.
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