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Eusebio Kino

1645 - 1711

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Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, SJ (Italian: Eusebio Francesco Chini, Spanish: Eusebio Francisco Kino; 10 August 1645 – 15 March 1711), often referred to as Father Kino, was an Italian Jesuit, missionary, geographer, explorer, cartographer, mathematician and astronomer born in the Territory of the Bishopric of Trent, then part of a partially German-speaking area of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. For the last 24 years of his life he worked in the region then known as the Pimería Alta, modern-day Sonora in Mexico and southern Arizona in the United States. He explored the region and worked with the indigenous Native American population, including primarily the Tohono O'Odham, Sobaipuri and other Upper Piman groups. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eusebio Kino has received more than 307,684 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Eusebio Kino is the 258th most popular explorer (down from 245th in 2019), the 2,578th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,395th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Italian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Eusebio Kino ranks 258 out of 405Before him are Pehr Osbeck, Carl Peters, Freya Stark, Karl Weyprecht, Estêvão Gomes, and Paweł Strzelecki. After him are Roy Chapman Andrews, Ippolito Rosellini, Ludwig Leichhardt, Willem de Vlamingh, William Clark, and Nikolai Spathari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1645, Eusebio Kino ranks 10Before him are Jean de La Bruyère, William Penn, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Aert de Gelder, Andreas Werckmeister, and Francis I Rákóczi. After him are Nicolas Lemery, Anne Dacier, Louis Jolliet, and Maria de Dominici. Among people deceased in 1711, Eusebio Kino ranks 12Before him are Louis-François de Boufflers, Maria Amalia of Courland, Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro, Vladimir Atlasov, Joseph Vaz, and Élisabeth Sophie Chéron. After him are Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt and Gerard de Lairesse.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Eusebio Kino ranks 2,578 out of 4,668Before him are Giovanni Galbaio (800), Juliana Falconieri (1270), Salvatore Garau (1953), Andrea Guarneri (1626), Enrico Betti (1823), and Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla (-300). After him are Felice Anerio (1560), Ippolito Rosellini (1800), Nicolò da Ponte (1491), Francesco Feo (1691), Titus Flavius Sabinus (100), and Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (1720).

Among EXPLORERS In Italy

Among explorers born in Italy, Eusebio Kino ranks 16Before him are Bartholomew Columbus (1460), Alvise Cadamosto (1432), Lancelotto Malocello (1270), Cristoforo Buondelmonti (1385), Alejandro Malaspina (1754), and Niccolò de' Conti (1395). After him are Ippolito Rosellini (1800) and Teoberto Maler (1842).