Von Däniken was raised a strict Catholic, and attended the international Catholic school Saint-Michel in Fribourg, Switzerland.

Von Däniken withdrew from school, and became apprenticed to a Swiss hotelier.

Von Däniken entered a plea for nullity on the grounds that his intentions were not malicious and the credit institutions were at fault for failing to adequately research his references.

Von Däniken was sentenced on 13 February 1970 to three and a half years imprisonment and fined 3, 000 francs.

Von Däniken told Playboy that although he had seen the library and other places he had described, he had fabricated some of the events to add interest to his book.

Von Däniken brought the Nazca Lines to public prominence with his 1968 book Chariots of the Gods ?, attracting so many tourists that researcher Maria Reiche had to spend much of her own time and money preserving them.

Von Däniken wrote in Chariots of the Gods?

Von Däniken also asserts the existence of a legend saying that a god gave the map to a priest, the god being an extraterrestrial being.

Von Däniken put forward photographs of ancient stones in Peru, with carvings of men using telescopes, detailed world maps, and advanced medical operations, all beyond the knowledge of ancient Peruvians.

Von Däniken had visited the potter and examined the stones himself, but he didn't mention this in his book.

Ronald Story published The Space Gods Revealed: A Close Look At The Theories of Erich Von Däniken in 1976, written in response to the evidence presented in Däniken's Chariots of the Gods ?.

Speaking in a 2001 documentary, Von Däniken said that although he could not conclusively prove to the scientific community that any of the items in his archive were of alien origin, he felt that " today's science " would not accept such evidence, as " the time is simply not right ".

* " Von Däniken ’ s Chariots: A Primer in the Art of Cooked Science " Skeptical Inquirer Winter 1976

Von Däniken offers the following hypotheses:

Von Däniken maintains that these artifacts were produced either by extraterrestrial visitors or by humans who learned the necessary knowledge from them.

The iron pillar of Delhi, erected by Chandragupta II the Great, which Von Däniken claimed did not rust.

Linda Schele saw Pakal falling down the Milky Way into the southern horizon, a view that has not found general acceptance among scholars, and even shows some resemblance to the science-fiction fantasies of Von Däniken ( see next section ).

Von Däniken reproduced a drawing of the sarcophagus lid ( incorrectly labeling it as being from " Copan ") and comparing Pacal's pose to that of 1960s Project Mercury astronauts, interpreting drawings underneath him as rockets, and offering it as evidence of a supposed extraterrestrial influence on the ancient Maya.

Von Neumann wrote the first array-sorting program ( merge sort ) in 1945, during the building of the first stored-program computer .< sup > p.

Von Stein wrote:

The effect of the British operation here was felt in Flanders, General Von Kuhl wrote later that it was a costly defeat and " wrecked " the plan for relieving divisions which had been " fought-out " in Flanders.

Hartknoch wrote: Von den Städten und Schlössern.

Von Neumann wrote up an incomplete set of notes ( First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC ) which were intended to be used as an internal memorandum describing, elaborating, and couching in formal logical language the ideas developed in the meetings.

She wrote the libretto for Schoenberg's one-act opera Von heute auf morgen under the pseudonym Max Blonda.

Within a very few years Albert formed his own firm, The York Publishing Company, and there appears to have been no further collaboration between Albert and Harry Von Tilzer, although both of them wrote and published many hundreds of songs.

In addition to " The Long-Lost-Friend ," Hohman also wrote and published, or at least had attributed to him, a number of further books in German, including Unsers Herran Jesu Christi Kinderbuch, oder, Merkwurdige Historische Beschreibung Von Joachim Und Anna ( Our Lord Jesus Christ's Childhood-Book, or, The Strange Historical Description of Joachim and Anna ), and Albertus Magnus, oder, Der Lange Verborgene und Getreuer und Christlicher Unterricht fur Jedermann ( Albertus Magnus, or, Long Lost and True and Christian Instructions for Everyone ).

Von Koch wrote several papers on number theory.

Sterling and Harry Von Tilzer, wrote " On the Old Fall River Line ".

He wrote " New York Stories " for Donna Karan's DKNY, and directed the " Von Hummer the 1st " series of promotional spots for VH1, starring James Urbaniak.

Brown wrote lyrics for many of the top Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the day, including Albert Von Tilzer, Con Conrad, and Harold Arlen.

In 1682, he returned to London, where he wrote the Chymischer Glücks-Hafen, Oder Grosse Chymische Concordantz Und Collection, Von funffzehen hundert Chymischen Processen and died in October of the same year.

Von Kármán wrote of Qian, “ At the age of 36, he was an undisputed genius whose work was providing an enormous impetus to advances in high-speed aerodynamics and jet propulsion .” The American journal Aviation Week & Space Technology would name Qian its Person of the Year in 2007, and comment on his interrogation of von Braun, " No one then knew that the father of the future U. S. space program was being quizzed by the father of the future Chinese space program.

Von Tempsky wrote that “ Heaphy has the ( Victoria ) Cross and I want it ”, which may have caused the reckless action leading to his own death.

Von Siebold wrote a paper ( published in 1852 ) summarizing Bilharz's findings.

Von Windisch wrote at one point that Kempelen " refused the entreaties of his friends, and a crowd of curious persons from all countries, the satisfaction of seeing this far-famed machine.

Together with Hans Rademacher, he wrote a classic of popular mathematics Von Zahlen und Figuren, which was first published in 1930 and later translated into English as Enjoyment of mathematics.

" Wilson was more influential to the science of public administration than Von Stein, primarily due to an article Wilson wrote in 1887 in which he advocated four concepts:

Von Franz also wrote over 20 volumes on Analytical psychology, most notably on fairy tales as they relate to Archetypal or Depth Psychology, most specifically by amplification of the themes and characters.

Von Trier actually wrote the third and final season, but the production was not picked up by DR. At that point, five regular cast members had died and it seemed impossible to continue the series.

Von Richthofen wrote in his diary: As it was a complete success of our 250 kg ( explosive ) and ECB1 ( incendiary ) bombs.

German Commander Von Estorff wrote in a report that approximately 1, 700 prisoners had died by April 1907, 1, 203 of them Nama.