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Martin Waldseemüller
Sign in to saveAlso known as Martin Waldseemueller, Martinus Ilacomylus, Martinus Ilacomilus, Martinus Hylacomylus, Martin Waldeseemüller
German cartographer
Key facts
- Born
- c. 1470 , Wolfenweiler, Margraviate of Baden , Holy Roman Empire , (now Schallstadt , Germany)
- Died
- 16 March 1520 (1520-03-16) (aged 49–50), Saint Dié, Duchy of Lorraine , Holy Roman Empire, (now Saint-Dié-des-Vosges , France)
- Alma mater
- University of Freiburg
- Occupation
- Cartographer
- Movement
- German Renaissance
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Martin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Margraviate Hachberg-Sausenberg
- Place of birth
- Schallstadt
- Place of death
- Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
- Occupation
- geographer
- Educated at
- University of Freiburg
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Student of
- Gregor Reisch
- Field of work
- cartography
- Movement
- German Renaissance
- Image
- MartinWaldseemüller.jpg
- Work location
- Innsbruck
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- Martin Waldseemüller
- date of death
- 1520-03-16
- date of birth
- 1470-00-00
- Commons Creator page
- Martin Waldseemüller
- floruit
- 1500-01-01
- has works in the collection
- Memoria Chilena
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Encyclopedic overview
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 in a world map they delineated in 1507. The same map was the first to show the Americas as a distinct landmass clearly separated from Asia by the Pacific Ocean. Waldseemüller was also the first to produce a printed globe and the first to create a printed wall map of Europe. A set of his maps printed as an appendix to the 1513 edition of Ptolemy's Geography is considered to be the first example of a modern atlas.
Life and works
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Martin Waldseemüller” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.