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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. He is now best known for his Erdapfel, the world's oldest known globe, which he produced for the Imperial City of Nuremberg in 1492. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Behaim is the 48th most popular explorer (down from 29th in 2019), the 463rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 294th in 2019) and the most popular German Explorer.

Martin Behaim is most famous for inventing the first globe.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Martin Behaim ranks 48 out of 498. Before him are Jacob Roggeveen, Ingólfr Arnarson, Ernest Shackleton, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, and Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. After him are William Clark, Samuel de Champlain, Diego de Almagro, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Sven Hedin, and Henry Morton Stanley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1459, Martin Behaim ranks 4. Before him are Pope Adrian VI, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Muhammad XII of Granada. After him are Sultan Cem, Jakob Fugger, Lorenzo di Credi, John I Albert, Charles, Count of Angoulême, Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha, Cima da Conegliano, and Conrad Celtes. Among people deceased in 1507, Martin Behaim ranks 3. Before him are Cesare Borgia, and Gentile Bellini. After him are Francis of Paola, Cosimo Rosselli, and Albertus Pictor.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Behaim ranks 463 out of 7,253. Before him are Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743), Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847), Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1750), and Maria Amalia of Saxony (1724). After him are Fritz Todt (1891), Julius von Mayer (1814), Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), Joachim Löw (1960), Ernst Busch (1885), and Ananda Mahidol (1925).

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Among EXPLORERS In Germany

Among explorers born in Germany, Martin Behaim ranks 1. After him are Heinrich Barth (1821), Carsten Niebuhr (1733), Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676), Adam Olearius (1603), Hans Staden (1525), Gustav Nachtigal (1834), Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (1873), John Sutter (1803), Wilhelm Filchner (1877), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), and Julius Klaproth (1783).

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