Kemal Reis

Kemal Reis ( also: Kemal Re'is ) (* 1451 in Gallipoli, Turkey, † 1511) was a Turkish pirate, Admiral (Ottoman Empire) and cartographer. He was the uncle of Piri Reis.

Life

He captured in 1501 in the war against the Republic of Venice at the Battle of Valencia, a chart of the western region which was drawn by Columbus. Several authors assume that the card came into the possession of Kemal Reis by a captured sailor. This dispute is only the question whether the statement of the captive seaman, that Columbus was the cartographer is right.

" ... To Piri Reis, according to the conjecture of Kahle, received by a Spanish sailor, Kemal Reis had taken in 1501 caught on a captured Spanish ship. This prisoner is said to have accompanied self-reported by Columbus on his first three voyages across the Atlantic. "

" According to tradition, she was reportedly captured in 1501 by Kemal Reis an uncle of Piri Reis in the Battle of Valencia. "

His nephew Piri Reis said to have incorporated cartographic information from this card to the known map of Piri Reis. Kemal Reis died with a fleet of 27 ships in a storm in the Mediterranean.