Immanuel Velikovsky

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catastrophist theorist human psychiatrist writer

Immanuel Velikovsky was a controversial mid-20th-century writer and psychiatrist best known for his speculative, catastrophist theories about planetary history and ancient texts, which were widely rejected by mainstream scientists.

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Label	Occurrences
Elisabeth Velikovsky	1
Immanuel Velikovsky canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	catastrophist theorist ⓘ human ⓘ psychiatrist ⓘ writer ⓘ
citizenship	Israel ⓘ Mandatory Palestine ⓘ Russian Empire ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
controversy	scientific community’s rejection of Worlds in Collision ⓘ
countryOfBirth	Russian Empire ⓘ
countryOfDeath	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1895-06-10 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1979-11-17 ⓘ
educatedAt	Moscow State University ⓘ University of Edinburgh ⓘ University of Vienna ⓘ University of Zurich ⓘ
era	20th century ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Jewish ⓘ
familyName	Velikovsky ⓘ
fieldOfWork	catastrophism ⓘ comparative mythology ⓘ history of astronomy ⓘ psychiatry ⓘ
genre	popular science ⓘ speculative non-fiction ⓘ
givenName	Immanuel ⓘ
influenced	alternative history writers ⓘ some catastrophist geologists ⓘ
influencedBy	Sigmund Freud ⓘ ancient Near Eastern texts ⓘ biblical studies ⓘ
knownFor	controversial catastrophist theories about planetary history ⓘ reinterpretation of ancient texts and myths ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Russian ⓘ
movement	catastrophism ⓘ
notableIdea	Venus as a former comet ejected from Jupiter ⓘ planetary catastrophes in historical times ⓘ synchronization of biblical events with astronomical phenomena ⓘ
notableWork	Ages in Chaos ⓘ Earth in Upheaval ⓘ Oedipus ⓘ surface form: Oedipus and Akhnaton Worlds in Collision ⓘ
numberOfChildren	2 ⓘ
occupation	author ⓘ independent scholar ⓘ psychiatrist ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Vitebsk ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Princeton, New Jersey, United States ⓘ surface form: Princeton, New Jersey
positionHeld	psychiatrist in private practice ⓘ
publisherOfNotableWork	Macmillan Publishers ⓘ
reception	widely rejected by mainstream scientists ⓘ
religion	Judaism ⓘ
residence	Jerusalem ⓘ New York City ⓘ Princeton, New Jersey, United States ⓘ surface form: Princeton, New Jersey Tel Aviv ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
spouse	Immanuel Velikovsky self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Elisabeth Velikovsky
theory	interpretation of ancient myths as records of astronomical events ⓘ recent catastrophic close encounters between Venus and Earth ⓘ reconstruction of ancient Near Eastern chronology ⓘ

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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science → criticizes → Immanuel Velikovsky ⓘ

Immanuel Velikovsky → spouse → Immanuel Velikovsky self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Elisabeth Velikovsky