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Nikolaus Federmann

1505 - 1542

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Nikolaus Federmann (Spanish: Nicolás Féderman, pronounced [nikoˈlas ðe feðeɾˈman]) (c. 1505, Ulm – February 1542, Valladolid) was a German adventurer and conquistador in what is modern-day Venezuela and Colombia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolaus Federmann has received more than 100,050 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Nikolaus Federmann is the 242nd most popular explorer (down from 223rd in 2019), the 2,815th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,546th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Nikolaus Federmann ranks 242 out of 498. Before him are Jan Czerski, Pedro Cieza de León, Yuri Lisyansky, Pehr Osbeck, Eduard von Toll, and Grigory Potanin. After him are Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Lady Hester Stanhope, Rodrigo de Jerez, Edward Bransfield, and Juan de Garay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1505, Nikolaus Federmann ranks 12. Before him are Michel de l'Hôpital, Juan de Valdés, Christine of Saxony, Mikołaj Rej, Christoph Amberger, and Lambert Lombard. After him are Vicente Juan Masip, Pierre Robert Olivétan, Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha, Solomon Alkabetz, Aegidius Tschudi, and Bahadur Shah of Gujarat. Among people deceased in 1542, Nikolaus Federmann ranks 15. Before him are Sayyida al Hurra, Peter Henlein, Thomas Wyatt, Malik Muhammad Jayasi, Cristóvão da Gama, and Diego de Almagro II. After him are Girolamo Aleandro, Ludwig Senfl, Gasparo Contarini, Pedro Reinel, Philotheus of Pskov, and Juan Boscán Almogáver.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Nikolaus Federmann ranks 2,815 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Wolfgang of Hesse (1896), Duchess Marie of Württemberg (1799), Gustav Schwab (1792), Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808), Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1582), and Duke George of Oldenburg (1784). After him are Valentin Weigel (1533), Adam Kraft (1450), Hermann von Fehling (1812), August Heissmeyer (1897), Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744), and Eugen Fischer (1874).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Nikolaus Federmann ranks 12. Before him are Adam Olearius (1603), Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1873), Gustav Nachtigal (1834), John Sutter (1803), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), and Julius Klaproth (1783). After him are Carl Peters (1856), Karl Weyprecht (1838), Adolf Lüderitz (1834), Henricus Martellus Germanus (1401), Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804), and Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (1540).

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