biography
| name: |
Waldseemüller, Martin
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pronunciation:
[valtsaymüler]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1470–c.1521)
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| biography:
| Cartographer, born in Radolfzell, SW Germany. He was educated at Freiburg im Breisgau. At St Dié he made use of an account of the travels of Amerigo Vespucci to publish in 1507 the map and globe on which he named the New World America in Vespucci's honour. |
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