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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, coming from the Old High German name Emmerich, in a world map they delineated in 1507. The same map also first showed the Pacific Ocean, separating the Americas from Asia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Waldseemüller is the 9th most popular geographer (up from 11th in 2019), the 368th most popular biography from Germany (up from 434th in 2019) and the 2nd 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 9 out of 86. Before him are Alexander von Humboldt, Gerardus Mercator, Muhammad al-Idrisi, Piri Reis, Pausanias, and Abraham Ortelius. After him are Carl Ritter, David Harvey, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Wladimir Köppen, George Everest, and Ya'qubi.

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Among people born in 1470, Martin Waldseemüller ranks 5. Before him are Edward V of England, Selim I, Charles VIII of France, and Piri Reis. After him are Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Catherine of Navarre, Hongzhi Emperor, Pietro Bembo, Francis, Count of Vendôme, Juan Díaz de Solís, and György Dózsa. 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, Sten Sture the Younger, Kunigunde of Austria, Agostino Chigi, Ravidas, and Ippolito d'Este.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Waldseemüller ranks 368 out of 7,253. Before him are Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662), Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868), Ludwig Beck (1880), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), August von Mackensen (1849), and Ernst Otto Fischer (1918). After him are Thomas Müntzer (1489), Hermann Müller (1876), Adolf Dassler (1900), Sophie Scholl (1921), Wilhelm Grimm (1786), and Emil Kraepelin (1856).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Martin Waldseemüller ranks 2. Before him are Alexander von Humboldt (1769). After him are Carl Ritter (1779), Sebastian Münster (1488), Johann Georg Gmelin (1709), Albrecht Penck (1858), Alfred Hettner (1859), Hans Meyer (1858), August Heinrich Petermann (1822), Adolf Stieler (1775), Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724), and Richard Andree (1835).

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