He is the ultramarathon man of 17 th-century Dutch translation, the greatest of all time. Gehring, whom friends call Charly, was hired in September 1974 and retired on April 2, a day before his 86 ...

A facsimile of the 17th-century Dutch documents that Charles Gehring spent 50 years translating, showing the condition of ancient records damaged by floods, in battles, in leaky ship holds and ...