Arno Peters

The family often entertained foreign guests, and he was exposed to social activism because of his parents' role in the labor union movement.

This topic was introduced to him during college and formed a large part of his dissertation, titled Film as a Means of Public Leadership.

Though Peters discussed his world map as early as 1967, he did not start promoting it until a press conference in Bonn in May 1973.

[3] Peters is buried in a cemetery in the city, and his black marble gravestone is a plinth with a globe on top.

Out of these studies came his "synchronoptic world history" timeline, devoting the same space to all areas and times of the world simultaneously, spanning 1000 BC to 1952 AD, based on the theory that viewing all civilizations and countries concurrently shows relationships and influences that might not otherwise be obvious.