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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 Latinized 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 375,895 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Martin Waldseemüller is the 11th most popular geographer (down from 10th in 2019), the 354th most popular biography from Germany (up from 373rd 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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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Martin Waldseemüller ranks 11 out of 67. Before him are Muhammad al-Idrisi, Piri Reis, Pausanias, Carl Ritter, George Everest, and Abraham Ortelius. After him are Ferdinand von Richthofen, Wladimir Köppen, Paul Vidal de La Blache, Ibn Khordadbeh, Pomponius Mela, and Ya'qubi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1470, Martin Waldseemüller ranks 6. Before him are Selim I, Edward V of England, Charles VIII of France, Piri Reis, and Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal. After him are Hongzhi Emperor, Pietro Bembo, Francis, Count of Vendôme, György Dózsa, Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, and Juan Díaz de Solís. 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, Cuitláhuac, Kunigunde of Austria, Sten Sture the Younger, Agostino Chigi, Jo Gwang-jo, and Ippolito d'Este.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Waldseemüller ranks 354 out of 6,142. Before him are Karl Drais (1785), Ludwig III of Bavaria (1845), Robert Bosch (1861), Sepp Maier (1944), Henry the Lion (1129), and Georgy Lvov (1861). After him are Franz Halder (1884), Friedrich Olbricht (1888), Walther Bothe (1891), Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737), Werner Herzog (1942), and Gregor Strasser (1892).

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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), Adolf Stieler (1775), and Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724).

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