The father established himself as a hosier in 1744, and Charles Bertram seems to have benefited from the warm reception that Louisa and her retinue received from the Danes.
14 Facts About Charles Bertram
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Charles Bertram became a friend and protege of Hans Gram, the royal librarian and a member of the privy council.
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In 1746, Charles Bertram composed a letter to the English antiquarian William Stukeley on Gram's recommendation.
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Charles Bertram found it "full of compliments, as usual with foreigners", and his reply brought a "prolix and elaborate Latin epistle" from Gram in Bertram's favour.
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Charles Bertram was excited that the text provided "more than a hundred names of cities, roads, people, and the like: which till now were absolutely unknown to us" and found it written "with great judgment, perspicuity, and conciseness, as by one that was altogether master of his subject".
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Later in 1757, at Stukeley's urging, Charles Bertram published the full text in a volume alongside Gildas's Ruin of Britain, and the History of the Britons traditionally ascribed to Nennius.
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Charles Bertram's preface noted that the work "contains many fragments of a better time, which would now in vain be sought for elsewhere".
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Stukeley assisted Charles Bertram in joining the Society of Antiquaries in 1756.
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Charles Bertram was succeeded as the naval academy's English teacher by the Swedish Carl Mannercrantz.
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The inability to find a manuscript in Copenhagen after Charles Bertram's death provoked some questions as to its validity.
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Charles Bertram had been working on a new edition of Tacitus's Agricola and, consulting the Description, he recognized that it included transcription errors which had been introduced to editions of Tacitus by Venetian printers in the late 15th century.
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Charles Bertram's work was translated into English by Beale Poste and printed by the Gentleman's Magazine in October 1846.
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Charles Bertram had on several occasions adopted variant readings and hypotheses unknown before William Camden.
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Charles Bertram was the author, editor, or translator of the following works:.