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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 215,834 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Martin Behaim is the 29th most popular explorer (up from 38th in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from Germany (up from 376th in 2019) and the most popular German Explorer.

Martin Behaim is most famous for inventing the first globe.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Martin Behaim ranks 29 out of 498. Before him are Erik the Red, Vitus Bering, Leif Erikson, Willem Barentsz, Thor Heyerdahl, and Vasco Núñez de Balboa. After him are Jan van Riebeeck, Pytheas, John Cabot, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, Evliya Çelebi, and Henry Morton Stanley.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Behaim ranks 294 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Zeiss (1816), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), Ernst Ruska (1906), Wilhelm Grimm (1786), Hans Memling (1435), and Sophie Scholl (1921). After him are Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175), Karl May (1842), Helmut Schmidt (1918), Franz Marc (1880), Robert Bunsen (1811), and Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Martin Behaim ranks 1. After him are Carsten Niebuhr (1733), Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676), Heinrich Barth (1821), Hans Staden (1525), 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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