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ADAM OF BREMEN, CHRONICLER - 12 OCTOBER

 

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Saints celebrated on the 12th of October

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ADAM OF BREMEN, CHRONICLER

A page from Gesta Hammaburgensis
ecclesiae pontificum


Adam of Bremen (Adamus Bremensis), a historian probably from Upper Saxony, was appointed cathedral scholaster [Director of Schools] in 1069 by Archbishop Adalbert. In his Gesta pontificum Hammenburgensium [Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum] he provided the history of the archbishopric and the Nordic mission up to 1072, based on scholarly research and oral communications from the Danish king Sven Estrithson [Svend Estridson]. [His work is divided into four books, the first three being mainly historical, while the last is purely geographical. The first book gives an account of the Bremen Church, of its first bishops, and of the propagation of Christianity in the North. The second book continues this narrative, and also deals largely with German affairs between 940 and 1045.*]

The third volume contains the history of Archbishop Adalbert, which is also valuable for imperial history. The fourth volume, "Descriptio insularum Aquilonis" contains important facts of the time about Denmark, Scandinavia and Russia. According to a manuscript found by Bartholin in the Sorö monastery, the work was first published in print in Copenhagen in 1579 by Andreas Severin Vellejus (Vedel). 

The best edition is that by Lappenberg in the Monumenta Germaniae (volume 7, 1846; German by Laurent-Wattenbach, 2nd edition, Berlin, 1888). Also of interest are Günther, Adam von Bremen, the first German geographer (Prague 1894); Bernard, De Adamo Bremen si geographo (Paris, 1895).

Sources: 🖍️ Meyer's Great Conversation Lexicon, Volume 1. Leipzig 1905, p. 94. *Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913 📷 A page from Adam von Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum. The page includes the beginning of the geographical portion descriptio insularum aquilonis, beginning Provincia danorum tota fere in insulas dispartita est... (Vienna cod. 521)

























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