e 31st of December 1865.

See _Life, Letters and Posthumous Works of F. Bremer_, by her sister,
Charlotte Bremer, translated by F. Milow, London, 1868. A selection of
her works in 6 vols. appeared at Orebro, 1868-1872.

BREMERHAVEN, a seaport town of Germany, in the free state of Bremen, on
the right bank and estuary of the Weser, at the confluence of the
Geeste, 38 m. N. of the city of Bremen by rail. Pop. (1895) 18,366;
(1905) 24,159. It is built on a tract of territory ceded to Bremen by
Hanover in 1826, and further increased by treaty with Prussia in 1869.
It forms practically a single town with Geestemunde (Prussia), which
lies across the Geeste and with which it is connected by a drawbridge.
The port was opened in 1830, and besides an excellent harbour, there are
three large wet docks, including the Kaiserhafen, enlarged in 1897-1899
at a cost of L900,000. This, together with the north portion of the
Neuerhafen, constitutes the free harbour. Here are the workshops and dry
docks of the North German Lloyd steamship company. The whole internal
harbour system is furnished with powerful hydraulic cranes and lines of
railway running alongside the quays. The entrance to the port is free
from ice nearly all the year round, is excellently buoyed, and lighted
by two lightships and eight lighthouses, among the latter the remarkable
Rothesand Leuchtturm, erected 1884-1885. The Hanoverian fort and
batteries, which formerly protected the town, have been removed, and
their place is supplied by four modern forts, with revolving turtleback
turrets, lower down. The town possesses two Protestant and a Roman
Catholic church, a technical institute, a natural history museum, a
library, a theatre, a monument to the emperor William I. and one to
Johann Smidt (1773-1859), the burgomaster of Bremen to whose enterprise
the harbour of Bremerhaven is due. Shipbuilding and kindred industries
are carried on.

BRENDAN, BRANDON, or BRANDAN (c. 484-578), Irish saint and hero of a
legendary voyage in the Atlantic, is said to have been born at Tralee
in Kerry in A.D. 484. The Irish form of his name is _Brennain_, the
Latin _Brendanus_. Medieval historians usually call him Brendan of
Clonfert, or Brendan son of Finnloga, to distinguish him from his
contemporary, St Brendan of Birr (573). Little is known of the
historical Brendan, who died in 578 as abbot of a Benedictine monastery
which he had founded twenty years previously at Cl