Index viatorum extra Europam saec. XIII-XVIII
Balthasar Sprenger (Springer)
Dates of travel: 1505/06Areas visited: Guinea, East Africa, Malabar Coast
Birth / Death: ca. 1480 / 1509/11
City of Origin / Profession: Vils, Außerfern / representative of the Welsers from Augsburg
Report/Manuscript:
Report/Publication: DJe Merfart vnd erfarung nüwer Schiffung vnd Wege zuo viln onerkanten Jnseln vnd Künigreichen von dem großmechtigen Portugalischen Kunig Emanuel Erforscht/ funden/ bestritten vnnd Jngenomen ..., Augsburg 1509 (with woodcuts by Hans Burgkmair from Augsburg).
(with repr.) Andreas Erhard, Eva Ramminger, Die Meerfahrt. Balthasar Springers Reise zur Pfefferküste, Innsbruck 1998.
Translation: Modern German: Andreas Erhard, Eva Ramminger, Die Meerfahrt. Balthasar Springers Reise zur Pfefferküste, Innsbruck 1998.
References:
Nomina viatorum
Anselme Adorno | Antonio de Abreu | Afonso de Albuquerque | Francesco de Almeida | Diogo de Azambuja | ...Duarte Barbosa | Jean de Bethencourt | Wilhelm von Boldensele | Bernhard von Breydenbach | ...
Giovanni Caboto | Pedro Álvares Cabral | Pêro Vaz de Caminha | Diogo Cao | Jacques Cartier | Niccolo dei Conti | Pero da Covilha | ...
Alvise ca'Da Mosto | Bartolomeu Dias | Dinis Dias | ...
Gil Eanes | Goncalo Eanes | Pedro de Evora | ...
Felix Fabri | Jacme Ferer | Martin Frobisher | ...
Vasco da Gama | Geoffrey of Langley | Humphrey Gilbert | Giovanni de Gallofonte | Buscarel de Giuzulfis (Ghizolfi) | Antão Gonçalves | Ruy González de Clavijo | Konrad Grünemberg | ...
Arnold van Harff | ...
Jourdain de Sévérac | ...
Gadifer de La Salle | Ludolph von Sudheim | ...
Giovanni de Marignolli | Fernao Mendes Pinto | Jean Mocquet | Johannes de Montecorvino | ...
Carsten Niebuhr | Afanassij Nikitin | João da Nova | ...
Oderico de Pordonone | ...
Afonso da Paiva | Jean and Raoul Parmentier | Binot Paulmier (de Gonneville) | Bartolomeu Perestrelo | Giovanni da Pian del Carpine | Antonio Pigafetta | Tome Pires | Heinrich Plütscho | Marco Polo | ...
Pedro Fernandez de Quiros | ...
Rodrigo Rabelo | Nicoloso da Recco | Pero Reinel | ...
Johann Jacob Saar | Hans Schiltberger | Willem Schouten | Francesco Serrão | Balthasar Sprenger | Hans Staden | ...
Pero Tafur | Tristão Vaz Teixeira | Luis Vaez de Torres | Nuno Tristão | Hans Tucher | ...
Antoniotto Usodimare | ...
Ludovico de Varthema | Giovanni da Verrazzano | Ugolino and Vadino Vivaldi | ...
João Gonçales Zarco | Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg | ...