Adam Of Bremen, a German missionary and chronicler, from 1067 canon and schoolmaster it Bremen, died there about 1076. He is the uthor of Historia Eeclesiastiea, which is the principal literary authority respecting the northern nations of that period. It is also called Gesta Hammaburgensis Eeclesim Pontificum, from containing a chronological record of the episcopal see of Hamburg from 788 to 1072. A part of his materials was furnished by King Sweyn Estrithson (1047-76) of Denmark. His MS. was first discovered in a Danish monastery, and published at Copenhagen in 1579. An improved and enlarged edition forms the 9th volume of Pertz's Monumenta Germaniae Historica, and this became the basis of Laurent's German translation (Berlin, 1850). Adam also wrote Be Situ Daniae (Stockholm, 1615; Hamburg, 1706; German, Bremen, 1825). As-mussen published at Kiel, in 1834, De Fontibus Adami Bremensis.