# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-behaim
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:51:15.004Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Martin Behaim was a German textile merchant who found his way into the Portuguese court, advising John II on navigation and sailing to West Africa in an era when the Atlantic was still being mapped. In 1492, back in his native Nuremberg, he constructed the Erdapfel — a terrestrial globe that froze the European worldview at a hinge moment in history. The timing was cruel: while Behaim painted his sphere, Columbus was crossing an ocean the globe didn't know was there. What survives is not a triumph of foresight but a relic of the last instant before the map had to be redrawn.