Matthias Ringmann

German cartographer and humanist poet

1482 CE to 1511 CE

Matthias Ringmann (also known as Philesius Vogesigena) (1482–1511) was a German cartographer and humanist poet.

He is credited with naming America on the map of his friend Martin Waldseemüller in Cosmographiae Introductio.

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