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Sebastian Münster

1488 - 1552

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Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552) was a German cartographer and cosmographer. He also was a Christian Hebraist scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Basel. His well-known work, the highly accurate world map, Cosmographia, sold well and went through 24 editions. Its influence was widely spread by a production of woodcuts created of it by a variety of artists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sebastian Münster is the 27th most popular geographer (down from 21st in 2019), the 1,336th most popular biography from Germany (down from 991st in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Geographer.

Sebastian Münster is most famous for his Cosmographia, a world atlas that was published in 1544.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Sebastian Münster ranks 27 out of 86. Before him are Al-Bakri, William Morris Davis, Élisée Reclus, Fra Mauro, James Lovelock, and Zakariya al-Qazwini. After him are Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Johann Georg Gmelin, Albrecht Penck, Abraham Cresques, Abu Sa'id Gardezi, and Willem Blaeu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1488, Sebastian Münster ranks 9. Before him are Ulrich von Hutten, Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Germaine of Foix, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Lütfi Pasha, and Ferdinand Columbus. After him are Charles II, Duke of Savoy, Joseph Karo, Otto Brunfels, Johannes Magnus, Gustav Trolle, and Jan Tarnowski. Among people deceased in 1552, Sebastian Münster ranks 7. Before him are Francis Xavier, Katharina von Bora, Petrus Apianus, Guru Angad, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and Basil Fool for Christ. After him are Paolo Giovio, Olaus Petri, Antonio de Mendoza, Andreas Osiander, Pierre Attaingnant, and Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Sebastian Münster ranks 1,336 out of 7,253. Before him are Margravine Johanna of Baden-Baden (1704), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg (1511), Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787), Kurt Tucholsky (1890), and Wilhelm von Biela (1782). After him are Arnold Janssen (1837), Walter Röhrl (1947), Gudrun Ensslin (1940), Udo Dirkschneider (1952), Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1723), and Heinrich Gustav Magnus (1802).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among geographers born in Germany, Sebastian Münster ranks 4. Before him are Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Martin Waldseemüller (1470), and Carl Ritter (1779). After him are 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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