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Hans Staden
German soldier and explorer
Hans Staden (c. – c. ) was a German soldier and explorer who voyaged to South America in the middle of the sixteenth century, where he was captured by the Tupinambá people of Brazil.
Hans staden biography
He managed to survive and return safe to Europe. In his widely read True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil, he claimed that the native people that held him captive practiced cannibalism.[1]
Trips to South America
Staden was born in Homberg in the Landgraviate of Hesse.
He had received a good education and was in moderate circumstances when desire for travel led him to enlist in on a ship that was bound for Brazil. He returned from this first trip on 8 October , and, going to Seville, enlisted for a second trip as a volunteer in an expedition for Río de la Plata which sailed in March On reaching the mouth of the river, two ships sank in a storm.
After vainly trying to build a barque, part of the shipwrecked crew set out ove