Did Nostradamous believe that the world will end in 2012?

Answer 1

It is difficult to interpret the "predictions" of Nostradamus. He wrote in poetry, in "quatrains" of four lines each. Like Rorschach ink blots, they are capable of being interpreted pretty much any way you like.

And the same quatrains are quoted as "predicting" any number of events, which makes them pretty much useless for actual prediction.

So I'm going to answer, "No, Nostradamus did not predict the end of the world in 2012."

The whole "end of the world in 2012" idea is based on the fact that the calendar of the ancient Mayans is cyclical; the end of the next cycle corresponds to December, 2012. But then, the Mayans' world ended when Cortez and DeSoto arrived about 500 years ago, so perhaps a prediction from the Mayans isn't really much to go on.