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Martin Behaim

1459 - 1507

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Martin Behaim (6 October 1459 – 29 July 1507), also known as Martin von Behaim and by various forms of Martin of Bohemia, was a German textile merchant and cartographer. He served John II of Portugal as an adviser in matters of navigation and participated in a voyage to West Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Behaim has received more than 199,504 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Martin Behaim is the 38th most popular explorer (up from 40th in 2019), the 376th most popular biography from Germany (down from 366th in 2019) and the most popular German Explorer.

Martin Behaim is most famous for inventing the first globe.

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  • 32

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  • 9.29

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  • 1.99

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Martin Behaim ranks 38 out of 405Before him are Francisco de Orellana, Evliya Çelebi, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Juan Ponce de León, Jan van Riebeeck, and Robert Falcon Scott. After him are Ernest Shackleton, Hanno the Navigator, Zhang Qian, Ingólfr Arnarson, Sven Hedin, and William Baffin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1459, Martin Behaim ranks 4Before him are Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, Pope Adrian VI, and Muhammad XII of Granada. After him are Sultan Cem, Lorenzo di Credi, Jakob Fugger, Charles, Count of Angoulême, Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha, John I Albert, Michael Sittow, and Cima da Conegliano. Among people deceased in 1507, Martin Behaim ranks 2Before him is Cesare Borgia. After him are Gentile Bellini, Francis of Paola, and Cosimo Rosselli.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Behaim ranks 376 out of 6,142Before him are Max Bruch (1838), Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Otto Dix (1891), Otto Lilienthal (1848), and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France (1731). After him are Moses Mendelssohn (1729), Georg von Küchler (1881), Joachim Löw (1960), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), Helmuth Weidling (1891), and Ulrike Meinhof (1934).

Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Martin Behaim ranks 1After him are Heinrich Barth (1821), Carsten Niebuhr (1733), Adam Olearius (1603), Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676), Hans Staden (1525), John Sutter (1803), Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1873), Gustav Nachtigal (1834), Julius Klaproth (1783), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), and Nikolaus Federmann (1505).