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Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés

1478 - 1557

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Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (August 1478 – 1557), commonly known as Oviedo, was a Spanish soldier, historian, writer, botanist and colonist. Oviedo participated in the Spanish colonization of the West Indies, arriving in the first few years after Christopher Columbus became the first European to arrive at the islands in 1492. Oviedo's chronicle Historia general de las Indias, published in 1535 to expand on his 1526 summary La Natural hystoria de las Indias (collectively reprinted, three centuries after his death, as Historia general y natural de las Indias), forms one of the few primary sources about it. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés has received more than 125,253 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés is the 217th most popular historian (down from 195th in 2019), the 936th most popular biography from Spain (down from 882nd in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés ranks 217 out of 561. Before him are Friedrich Meinecke, Egon Friedell, Guo Pu, Heinrich Graetz, Antiochus of Syracuse, and Vasily Klyuchevsky. After him are Ivane Javakhishvili, John Foxe, Sigfried Giedion, Ahmad Kasravi, Albert Soboul, and Moritz Cantor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1478, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés ranks 17. Before him are Hatuey, Sancha of Aragon, Barbara Jagiellon, Surdas, Gian Giorgio Trissino, and Louis V, Elector Palatine. After him are Wolfgang Capito, Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, Konrad Pellikan, and Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón. Among people deceased in 1557, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés ranks 19. Before him are Ferrante Gonzaga, Galvarino, Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Mohammed al-Shaykh, John II, Count Palatine of Simmern, and Söyembikä of Kazan. After him are Giovanni Battista Ramusio, and Kamran Mirza.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés ranks 936 out of 3,355. Before him are Bahya ibn Paquda (1050), Vicente Juan Masip (1505), Miguel Cabanellas (1872), Juvencus (400), Lubna of Córdoba (922), and Julio Salinas (1962). After him are Louis of Granada (1504), Luis Cernuda (1902), Juan Marsé (1933), Ermengol I, Count of Urgell (1000), Infante Antonio, Duke of Galliera (1866), and Jaume Huguet (1412).

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Among HISTORIANS In Spain

Among historians born in Spain, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés ranks 1. After him are Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi (1213), Ibn Hayyan (987), Francisco López de Gómara (1511), Juan de Mariana (1536), Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot (1952), and Jerónimo Zurita y Castro (1512).

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