Adam of Bremen. an old historical writer, whose work entitled Gesta Pontificum Hammemburgensium gives a history of the archbishopric of Hamburg from 788 A.D. to the death of the
Archbishop Adalbert in 1072. It has great historical value; besides notices of ecclesiastical affairs, it gives accounts of the northern Slavonic tribes, which the author collected during a visit to the Danish king Svend-Estrithson. Adam was canon and magister scholarum at Bremen from 1069 to the time of his death, which took place in 1075.