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Hans Staden

1525 - 1579

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Hans Staden (c. 1525 – c. 1576) was a German soldier and explorer who voyaged to South America in the middle of the sixteenth century, where he was captured by the Tupinambá people of Brazil. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Staden has received more than 225,005 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hans Staden is the 120th most popular explorer (up from 148th in 2019), the 1,346th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,752nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Hans Staden ranks 120 out of 498. Before him are Cosmas Indicopleustes, Pánfilo de Narváez, Heinrich Barth, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, and Himilco. After him are Alvise Cadamosto, Pedro de Mendoza, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Jean Chardin, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, and Salomon August Andrée.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1525, Hans Staden ranks 5. Before him are Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Nurbanu Sultan, Şehzade Bayezid, and John George, Elector of Brandenburg. After him are Giovanni Battista Moroni, Zhang Juzheng, Germain Pilon, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Abbakka Chowta, Patriarch Job of Moscow, and Caspar Peucer. Among people deceased in 1579, Hans Staden ranks 4. Before him are Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, and Joseph Nasi. After him are Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Diego de Landa, Thomas Gresham, Ferenc Dávid, Vicente Juan Masip, Stanislaus Hosius, Simão Rodrigues, and Juan Fernández Navarrete.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Staden ranks 1,346 out of 7,253. Before him are Fritz Bayerlein (1899), Fancy (1946), Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1877), Otto II, Duke of Bavaria (1206), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), and Franz von Hipper (1863). After him are Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803), Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse (1753), Prince Joachim of Prussia (1890), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), and Thomas Abbt (1738).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Hans Staden ranks 5. Before him are Martin Behaim (1459), Carsten Niebuhr (1733), Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676), and Heinrich Barth (1821). After him are Adam Olearius (1603), Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1873), Gustav Nachtigal (1834), John Sutter (1803), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Julius Klaproth (1783), and Nikolaus Federmann (1505).

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