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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 113,944 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés is the 195th most popular historian, the 882nd most popular biography from Spain and the most popular Spanish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés ranks 195 out of 339. Before him are Gerardus Vossius, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Walter Laqueur, Quentin Skinner, Abraham Geiger, and Constantine Lascaris. After him are W. Montgomery Watt, Frederick Jackson Turner, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Yitzhak Arad, Henri Maspero, and Halil İnalcık.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1478, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés ranks 18. Before him are Surdas, Barbara Jagiellon, Sancha of Aragon, Gian Giorgio Trissino, Louis V, Elector Palatine, and Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham. After him are Wolfgang Capito, Konrad Pellikan, and Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón. Among people deceased in 1557, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés ranks 18. Before him are Ferrante Gonzaga, Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Mohammed al-Shaykh, Galvarino, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, and John II, Count Palatine of Simmern. After him are Söyembikä of Kazan, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, and Kamran Mirza.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés ranks 882 out of 2,932. Before him are Mikel Arteta (1982), Émile Henry (1872), Juan Marsé (1933), Muhammad III of Granada (1257), Antonio Cañizares Llovera (1945), and Antonio José Cavanilles (1745). After him are El Risitas (1956), María Mercader (1918), Federico Mayor Zaragoza (1934), Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (1971), Jaume Huguet (1412), and Luis de Narváez (1500).

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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), Juan de Mariana (1536), Ibn Hayyan (987), Jerónimo Zurita y Castro (1512), and Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot (1952).

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