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Adam of Bremen
11th-century German historian and chronicler · Germany · Writers · Lived 1100 to 1085 · aged -15
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Something wrong?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.
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If I have not been able to write well, I have at any rate written truthfully, using as authorities those who are best informed about the subject.
About this person
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.
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