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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 212,947 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hans Staden is the 149th most popular explorer (down from 142nd in 2019), the 1,753rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,578th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Hans Staden ranks 149 out of 405Before him are Sebastián de Belalcázar, Alexander Mackenzie, Otto Sverdrup, Scylax of Caryanda, Gaspar Corte-Real, and Vladimir Arsenyev. After him are Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, John Sutter, Juan de Grijalva, Adrien de Gerlache, Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, and Samuel Wallis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1525, Hans Staden ranks 6Before him are Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Nurbanu Sultan, Şehzade Bayezid, Carolus Clusius, and John George, Elector of Brandenburg. After him are Giovanni Battista Moroni, Zhang Juzheng, Germain Pilon, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Patriarch Job of Moscow, and Caspar Peucer. Among people deceased in 1579, Hans Staden ranks 7Before him are Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, Diego de Landa, Joseph Nasi, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, and Thomas Gresham. After him are Ferenc Dávid, Juan Fernández Navarrete, Stanislaus Hosius, Simão Rodrigues, and John Ogilvie.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Staden ranks 1,753 out of 6,142Before him are Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898), Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752), Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke (1889), Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony (1730), Johannes Sturm (1507), and Christian Leopold von Buch (1774). After him are Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1536), Meinhard III, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol (1344), Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (1888), Bastian Schweinsteiger (1984), Wolfgang Borchert (1921), and Frederick IV, Elector Palatine (1574).

Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Hans Staden ranks 6Before him are Martin Behaim (1459), Heinrich Barth (1821), Carsten Niebuhr (1733), Adam Olearius (1603), and Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676). After him are John Sutter (1803), Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1873), Gustav Nachtigal (1834), Julius Klaproth (1783), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), and Nikolaus Federmann (1505).