Olaus Rudbeck

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Discussed as a classic example of nationalist pseudo-scholarship. Rudbeck, the rector of the University of Uppsala in the late 17th century, conducted 'very detailed research' concluding that Atlantis was actually Sweden and its capital was Uppsala—his own city. The hosts use this as an archetypal example of how Atlantis theories conveniently locate the lost civilization wherever the theorist happens to live.