1525 - 1579
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, Hans Staden ranks 149 out of 405. Before 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.
1480 - 1551
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 143
1764 - 1820
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 144
1854 - 1930
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 145
600 BC - 500 BC
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 146
1450 - 1501
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 147
1872 - 1930
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 148
1525 - 1579
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 149
1705 - 1786
HPI: 56.58
Rank: 150
1803 - 1880
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 151
1480 - 1527
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 152
1866 - 1934
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 153
1810 - 1897
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 154
1728 - 1795
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 155
Among people born in 1525, Hans Staden ranks 6. Before 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 7. Before 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.
1525 - 1569
HPI: 81.00
Rank: 1
1525 - 1583
HPI: 79.47
Rank: 2
1525 - 1561
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 3
1525 - 1609
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 4
1525 - 1598
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 5
1525 - 1579
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 6
1525 - 1578
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 7
1525 - 1582
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 8
1525 - 1590
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 9
1525 - 1576
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 10
1525 - 1607
HPI: 51.68
Rank: 11
1525 - 1602
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 12
1505 - 1579
HPI: 75.04
Rank: 1
1528 - 1579
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 2
1524 - 1579
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 3
1524 - 1579
HPI: 59.10
Rank: 4
1509 - 1579
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 5
1519 - 1579
HPI: 57.55
Rank: 6
1525 - 1579
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 7
1510 - 1579
HPI: 52.87
Rank: 8
1526 - 1579
HPI: 50.77
Rank: 9
1504 - 1579
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 10
1510 - 1579
HPI: 48.82
Rank: 11
1579 - 1579
HPI: 41.26
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Hans Staden ranks 1,753 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1898 - 1995
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 1,747
1752 - 1796
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 1,748
1889 - 1968
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 1,749
1730 - 1806
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 1,750
1507 - 1589
HPI: 56.69
Rank: 1,751
1774 - 1853
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 1,752
1525 - 1579
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 1,753
1536 - 1606
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 1,754
1344 - 1363
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 1,755
1888 - 1968
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 1,756
1984 - Present
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 1,757
1921 - 1947
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 1,758
1574 - 1610
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 1,759
Among explorers born in Germany, Hans Staden ranks 6. Before 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).
1459 - 1507
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 1
1821 - 1865
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 2
1733 - 1815
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 3
1603 - 1671
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 4
1676 - 1747
HPI: 57.17
Rank: 5
1525 - 1579
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 6
1803 - 1880
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 7
1873 - 1969
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 8
1834 - 1885
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 9
1783 - 1835
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 10
1877 - 1957
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 11
1505 - 1542
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 12