Career
In 1977 Topper published Das Erbe der Giganten (The Legacy of the Giants), a book about the prehistory of Spain and the Western Mediterranean basin. The main thesis interpretes the remnant of very early high cultures there as the basis for Plato"s Atlantis. Since the late 1990s he is best known as a proponent of radically rewriting chronology, with his variant of New Chronology somewhat between Heribert Illig"s phantom time hypothesis and Fomenko"son
Apart from working on New Chronology Topper did extensive anthropologial research.
He has published scientific articles in German official reviews like Zeitschrift für Ethnologie and Jahrbuch des Museums für Anthropologie München. His book on early metal age civilizations (horra 2003) gives a new dimension to prehistoric research.
He lives in Berlin. In 1995, Topper, who had by then got in contact with a group of German researchers including Gunnar Heinsohn, Heribert Illig, Christoph Marx and others, who all question the established chronology, started to take a closer look on the Middle Ages and published a series of books which try to show that History, as we know it, was created from the 16th century onwards - according to this idea, there are hardly true facts before 1400 AD. Titles include Die Große Aktion (1998) Erfundene Geschichte (1999), Fälschungen der Geschichte (2001), ZeitFälschung (2003), several are translated into Russian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Corean.
His knowledge of Arabic and Berber makes him focus especially on North African subjects.
