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.

Martin Waldseemüller (born c. 1470, Radolfzell, Württemberg [Germany]—died 1518–21?, Saint-Dié, Lorraine [now in France]) was a German cartographer who in 1507 published the first map with the name America for the New World.

Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map grew out of an ambitious project in St. Dié, near Strasbourg, France, during the first decade of the sixteenth century, to document and update new geographic knowledge derived from the discoveries of the late fifteenth and the first years of the sixteenth centuries.

The Waldseemüller map or Universalis Cosmographia ("Universal Cosmography") is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name " America ".

May 29, 2018 · The German geographer and cartographer Martin Waldseemüller (ca. 1470-ca. 1518) was the first to suggest that the newly discovered landmass in the New World should be called America. Martin Waldseemüller was born at Radolfzell on the Bodensee and matriculated at the University of Freiburg in 1490.

Jan 28, 2023 · Martin Waldseemüller was a brilliant German humanist, academic, cartographer and cosmographer. In the early sixteenth century he and a colleague published one of the most important maps in the history of cartography, the Universalis Cosmographia, dated 1507.

In 1507, Waldseem ller created two maps that reflected information the scholars at St. Di had received about the discovery of a new continent in the Atlantic. He produced one map, a globe gores, intended to be cut out and pasted on a sphere to form a globe, and another map, a plane chart or flat representation of the earth, designed on 12 panels.

It had long been suspected that Martin Waldseemüller, a professor of cosmography at the school in St. Die, located in the Vosges Mountains of France, had made a map of the world in the year 1507.

A very influential German cartographer and scholar whose works include the first to map to South America as a continent separate from Asia. Waldseemüller's ‘Cosmographia’ (1507) contains the first printed instance of the name “America.

Martin Waldseemuller (ca. 1470 - ca. 1521/1522) was a German cartographer. He was born in Radolfzell (or according to the Catholic Encyclopedia Wolfenweiler, near Freiburg, with his mother originating from Radolfzell) and studied at the university in Freiburg.