IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY


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Immanuel Velikovsky
Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Born: June 10, 1895
  • Died: November 17, 1979
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Philosopher

Immanuel Velikovsky was a Russian, Israeli, and American scholar. He is the author of several books offering pseudohistorical interpretations of ancient history, including the U.S. bestseller Worlds in Collision published in 1950. Earlier, he had played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, and was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Velikovsky's work is frequently cited as a canonical example of pseudoscience and has been used as an example of the demarcation problem.