>In 1953, Diemer was expelled from the German Chess Federation, whose officials he had accused, in a press campaign, of "homosexuality and corruption of innocent youth".>After 1956, Diemer became less interested in chess, and increasingly interested in Nostradamus, the 16th-century French clairvoyant: he claimed to have cracked Nostradamus's secret code, and over 25 years is said to have mailed over 10,000 letters on the subject.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Josef_Diemer#Biography
>Diemer claimed to have found a secret numerical or alphabet-based cipher hidden in Nostradamus's quatrains, where each alphabetical character corresponded to a number or pattern that, once unlocked, revealed true prophetic meaning.>His letters presented supposed interpretations of Nostradamus's quatrains based on that code, effectively arguing that Nostradamus had encoded specific predictions in a way that only his method could reveal.https://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/john-watson-book-review-109-the-essayistmfw there is no reliable archive of the actual letters Emil Diemer sent
>He wrote and mailed thousands of letters (about 10,000) over roughly 25 years to academics, authors, and intellectuals, trying to persuade them of his breakthrough.>The core theme in those letters was that he had mathematically "cracked" Nostradamus's cipher and could thus explain what was really being predicted, typically with a focus on hidden structures and number assignments to letters rather than traditional historical or linguistic analysis.
>>18325502>Nostradamusgiven the nostradamus guy was an "apothecary" and showed no math, what would've led diemer to the secret math code hypothesis? given also diemer didn't elucidate any of what the decoding revealed, it looks like more blackmar-diemer gambit stuff carried into the real world
>>18325590https://www.crystalinks.com/nostradamus2.html
>>18325591mm, somewhere between between "god told me" and "i did the math". but there's no math
