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Martin Waldseemüller

1470 - 1520

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Martin Waldseemüller (c. 1470 – 16 March 1520) was a German cartographer and humanist scholar. Sometimes known by the Hellenized form of his name, Hylacomylus, his work was influential among contemporary cartographers. His collaborator Matthias Ringmann and he are credited with the first recorded usage of the word America to name a portion of the New World in honour of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci in a world map they delineated in 1507. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Waldseemüller has received more than 398,772 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Martin Waldseemüller is the 11th most popular geographer, the 434th most popular biography from Germany (down from 354th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Geographer.

Martin Waldseemüller is most famous for his 1507 map of the world, which was the first map to use the name "America" in reference to the Western Hemisphere.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Martin Waldseemüller ranks 11 out of 86. Before him are Muhammad al-Idrisi, Piri Reis, Pausanias, Carl Ritter, Abraham Ortelius, and Ferdinand von Richthofen. After him are Wladimir Köppen, Ya'qubi, Georg Joachim Rheticus, George Everest, Pomponius Mela, and Ibn Khordadbeh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1470, Martin Waldseemüller ranks 6. Before him are Selim I, Charles VIII of France, Piri Reis, Edward V of England, and Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal. After him are Hongzhi Emperor, Pietro Bembo, Juan Díaz de Solís, György Dózsa, Francis, Count of Vendôme, and Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan. Among people deceased in 1520, Martin Waldseemüller ranks 5. Before him are Raphael, Selim I, Pedro Álvares Cabral, and Moctezuma II. After him are Pier Gerlofs Donia, Kunigunde of Austria, Cuitláhuac, Ravidas, Sten Sture the Younger, Agostino Chigi, and Ippolito d'Este.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Waldseemüller ranks 434 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Bruch (1838), Hans Fischer (1881), Georg von Küchler (1881), Carol I of Romania (1839), Uwe Seeler (1936), and Elsa Einstein (1876). After him are Gerhard Domagk (1895), Klaus Meine (1948), Felix Klein (1849), Hans Krebs (1898), Hans Fritzsche (1900), and Walther Bothe (1891).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Martin Waldseemüller ranks 3. Before him are Alexander von Humboldt (1769), and Carl Ritter (1779). After him are Sebastian Münster (1488), Albrecht Penck (1858), Alfred Hettner (1859), Johann Georg Gmelin (1709), Hans Meyer (1858), August Heinrich Petermann (1822), Peter Schenk the Elder (1660), Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), and Adolf Stieler (1775).

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