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Wrote the 1871 British science fiction novel 'Vril, the Power of the Coming Race', which is the documented origin of the Vril energy concept central to Nazi UFO mythology — not any actual German research program.
Quick Facts
Born
May 25, 1803 · London, England
Died
January 18, 1873
Nationality
British