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In 1826 François Pouqueville, French diplomat and archaeologist, who wrote the Voyage en Grèce ; in 1851 Ernst Curtius the German archaeologist and historian who speculated about its location ; in 1879 Julius Smith, the director of Athens Observatory, issuing a study comparing the Aegeion earthquake which occurred 26 December 1861 with an earthquake which might have destroyed Helike ; in 1883 Spiros Panagiotopoulos, the mayor of Aegeion city, wrote about the ancient city ; in 1912 the Greek writer P. K. Ksinopoulos wrote The City of Aegeion Through the Centuries, and in 1939 Stanley Casson, an English art scholar and army officer who studied classical archaeology and served in Greece as liaison officer, addressed the problem.