Hans Pothorst
Male, Deceased Person
– 1490
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Who was Hans Pothorst?
Hans Pothorst was a privateer, likely from the German city Hildesheim. He is mostly notable because some have proposed that he may have discovered America along with Didrik Pining in the 1470s, almost twenty years before Columbus.
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