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Charles Frambach Berlitz was an eminent linguist (November 20, 1914, New York City - December 18, 2003) and an author known for his books about anomalous phenomena.
He is listed in People's Almanac as one of fifteen most eminent linguists in the world and was awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld International Prize for Non-fiction in 1976 for the Bermuda Triangle, which sold over 20 million copies.
He was the grandson of Maximilien Berlitz (Maximilian) who founded the Berlitz Language Schools.
He was a magna cum laude graduate from Yale University, and was a brilliant polyglot and spoke 32 languages.
He also spent 13 years on active duty in the U.S. Army, mostly in intelligence. Berlitz married Valerie Seary 1950.
He began working for the family language school, The Berlitz School of Languages, during college breaks. The publishing house, which he vice president of, sold, among other things tourist phrase books, pocket dictionaries, several of which he himself authored. Mr. Berlitz also played a key role in developing record and tape language courses.
He left the company in the late 1960s, not long after he sold the company to publishing firm Crowell, Collier & Macmillan.
He died at the age of 90 at University Hospital in Tamarac, Fla.
Anomaly Related
- The Bermuda Triangle (1974) ISBN 0285633260
- Without a Trace (1977)
- The Philadelphia Experiment - Project Invisibility (1979)
- The Roswell Incident (1980)
- Doomsday 1999 A.D. (1981) ISBN 0586055436.
- In Search of the Ark at Ararat (1987)
- The Dragon's Triangle (1989)
- The Mystery Of Atlantis
- the lost continent revealed, Publisher Macmillan London 1984
- Without a Trace: More Evidence from the Bermuda Triangle
- Mysteries from forgotten worlds
- Roswell Incident, The
- World of Strange Phenomena, Little Brown &Company, New York, USA, 1995
- Charles Berlitz′s World of Strange Phenomena - Volume 3: The Odd and the Awesome
- ATLANTIS - THE EIGHTH CONTINENT (G. P. Putnams Sons., New York., 1984
Language Related
- Native tongues, Publisher: London ;PP|New York :: Granada. 1983 ISBN 0785818278
- Around the World in 80 Words: The 80 Key Words You Need to Communicate in 25 Languages
- Passport to Spanish, Publisher: N A L, New York, USA, 1993
- Passport to Russian, Publisher: N A L, New York, USA, 1992
- Passport to Italian, Publisher: N A L, New York, USA, 1979 and Penguin.
- Spanish Step-by-Step, Publisher: Wynwood, Ada, USA, 1990
- German Step-by-Step *
- Learn German, Diamond Books, 1995
- El Berlitz sin Maestro: Ingles
- Czech: Start Speaking Today
- Athens Travel Guide
Language/30 series of books
For Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Swahili, Latin, Japanese, Thai, Arabic and Chinese Mandarin and many more.Films
"The Bermuda Triangle" and "The Philadelphia Experiment" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087910/ both turned into films http://www.einsiders.com/features/columns/dec03obituaries.php
"Rosswell" was a film based on "The Rosswell Incident".
http://german.imdb.com/name/nm0075688/
See also
References
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