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Last Name Waldseemüller

Given Name Martin

alt. Names M. W. ; Waltzemüller / Waldseemüller / Waldseemuller / Hylacomylus / Ilacomilus ;

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Year born 1472 / 1475 in Wolfenweiler near Freiburg i. Br.

Year died 1520

Place of death Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

Father's occupation butcher

Relatives

Education the mathematics and geography at the university of Freiburg i. Br. where he got taught by Gregor Reisch (c. 1470-1525)

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for creator of the first world map containing the name America (1507, introduction „Einführung in die Kosmografie" by Matthias Ringmann) ; Tabula moderna Germaniae (1513) ;

Patronage

Collaborators philologist and poet Matthias Ringmann (1482-1511) ; Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci (1451 /1452 /1454-1512) ; Carta itineraria europae (1520) ;

Techniques cartographic and geographic woodcut ; terrestrial 3D globe-making ;

Sample(s) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Waldseem%C3%BCller#/media/File:Waldseemuller_map_closeup_with_America.jpg ;

Archival sources https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Waldseem%C3%BCller ;

Published sources ADB 13 1881: 488f ; Grees 2002: 13 & 61 ; Walter 1994: plate 3 ; Focus 1993: 665f. ,

other For further examples of his work see also: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Waldseem%C3%BCller#/media/File:Waldseemuller_map_2.jpg , https://igeo.ufrgs.br/museudetopografia/images/acervo/mapas/Mapa_de_Martin_Waldseemler_1507.jpg .

Further Place of Activity: France.

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