Immanuel Velikovsky
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Immanuel Velikovsky Net Worth 2024, Height, Wiki, Age

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Birthday

: 10 June 1895

Birthplace

: Vitebsk, Belarus

Sign

: Gemini

Died

: 17 November 1979

Lived

: 84 years

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He was a Russian-Jewish independent scholar

Born:	10 June 1895 Comment
When did Immanuel Velikovsky die? / Died	17 November 1979
How many years did Immanuel Velikovsky live? / Lived	84 years
Where was Immanuel Velikovsky born?	Vitebsk, Belarus
Where did Immanuel Velikovsky die? / Deathplace	Princeton, New Jersey, US
Zodiac sign:	Gemini
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Nationality:	Russian-Jewish

Who was Immanuel Velikovsky? / Facts

Known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision published in 1950
Earlier, he played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, and was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
His books use comparative mythology and ancient literary sources (including the Old Testament) to argue that Earth suffered catastrophic close contacts with other planets (principally Venus and Mars) in ancient times
In positioning Velikovsky among catastrophists including Hans Bellamy, Ignatius Donnelly, and Johann Gottlieb Radlof, the British astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier noted "Velikovsky is not so much the first of the new catastrophists; he is the last in a line of traditional catastrophists going back to mediaeval times and probably earlier"
Velikovsky argued that electromagnetic effects play an important role in celestial mechanics
He also proposed a revised chronology for ancient Egypt, Greece, Israel and other cultures of the ancient Near East
The revised chronology aimed at explaining the so-called "dark age" of the eastern Mediterranean (c. 1100–750 BC) and reconciling biblical history with mainstream archaeology and Egyptian chronology
In general, Velikovsky's theories have been ignored or vigorously rejected by the academic community
Nonetheless, his books often sold well and gained an enthusiastic support in lay circles, often fuelled by claims of unfair treatment for Velikovsky by orthodox academia
The controversy surrounding his work and its reception is often referred to as "the Velikovsky affair"