# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adam-of-bremen
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:28:33.394Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adam-of-bremen"
name: "Adam of Bremen"
slug: "adam-of-bremen"
description: "A German monk who, in the 1070s, became the first European to commit the New World to paper — centuries before Columbus, writing from hearsay about a Norse outpost called Vinland."
tagline: "11th-century German historian and chronicler"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Christian_Krohg_-_Leiv_Eirikson_discovering_America_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-Christian_Krohg_-_Leiv_Eirikson_discovering_America_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg"
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birthDate: "1100"
deathDate: "1085"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Adam lived and worked in the second half of the eleventh century, a chronicler attached to the church in Bremen. His major work, the Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, tracked the deeds of Hamburg's bishops — a regional history that would have stayed obscure if not for one chapter. In it, he recorded what he'd heard about Vinland, the Norse settlement across the Atlantic, making him the first European writer to document the continent's existence. He died between 1081 and 1085, leaving behind what scholars now call one of the foremost historical and ethnographic records of the medieval period.