Joseph Seiss

Seiss was born in Graceham, Frederick County, Maryland, to an agricultural family; his interest in religious studies reportedly began in childhood.

Perhaps his most well-known work is The Great Pyramid of Egypt, Miracle in Stone: Secrets and Advanced Knowledge (1877); it is considered a primary text of pyramidology.

The new forward to the 2007 reprint of the work states: In addition to pyramidology, Joseph Seiss was a Christian dispensationalist, a 19th century millennialist school of thought.

[6] Seiss is typically cited among less than a dozen theologians who influenced Charles Taze Russell,[7] the founding editor of the magazine now known as The Watchtower.

Published by Jehovah's Witnesses' Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the religious magazine and organization abandoned its teachings on pyramidology by the late 1920s.