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Peter Minuit

1589 - 1638

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Peter Minuit (between 1580 and 1585 – August 5, 1638) was a Walloon merchant from Wesel, in present-day northwestern Germany. He was the 3rd Director of the Dutch North American colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1631, and 3rd Governor of New Netherland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Minuit has received more than 692,780 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Peter Minuit is the 5,501st most popular politician (down from 3,790th in 2019), the 1,540th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,046th in 2019) and the 462nd most popular German Politician.

Peter Minuit is most famous for buying Manhattan Island from the Native Americans for $24 worth of goods.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Peter Minuit ranks 5,501 out of 15,577. Before him are Ugyen Wangchuck, Vologases VI, Ulpia Marciana, Latinus, Micheline Calmy-Rey, and Chris Patten. After him are Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Favila of Asturias, Princess Sophie of the Netherlands, René Préval, Eleanor de' Medici, and John Hancock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1589, Peter Minuit ranks 7. Before him are Feodor II of Russia, Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria, Ivan Gundulić, Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal, John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, and 4th Dalai Lama. After him are Domenico Fetti, Gabriel Báthory, Hercules Seghers, Marko Krizin, Adriaen van de Venne, and Teimuraz I of Kakheti. Among people deceased in 1638, Peter Minuit ranks 10. Before him are François Leclerc du Tremblay, Ivan Gundulić, Johannes Althusius, Adriaen Brouwer, Cyril Lucaris, and Amakusa Shirō. After him are Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy, Willem Blaeu, Cornelis van Haarlem, Hercules Seghers, Johann Heinrich Alsted, and Barbara Longhi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Minuit ranks 1,540 out of 6,142. Before him are Walter Warlimont (1894), Thomas Kretschmann (1962), Hemma (800), Christoph Scheiner (1575), Conrad Celtes (1459), and Carl Schuhmann (1869). After him are Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813), Eugen Fink (1905), Rudolf Arnheim (1904), and Hans Werner Henze (1926).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Peter Minuit ranks 462. Before him are Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (1650), Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1803), Richard, 6th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1934), Princess Charlotte of Württemberg (1807), Erich Naumann (1905), and Walter Warlimont (1894). After him are Bernhardus Varenius (1622), Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt (1752), Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906), George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1484), Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1826), and Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (1310).

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