Bengt Gottfried Forselius

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Birthday April 17, 1660

Birth Sign Aries

Birthplace Estonia

DEATH DATE Nov 16, 1688 (28)

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About

Writer of the first Estonian ABC book and a key figure in the establishment of Estonian public education. He was also a late seventeenth-century reformer of the Estonian language.

Before Fame

He studied law at the University of Wittenberg and subsequently established a teachers' college in the town of Piiskopimoisa.

Trivia

He founded a total of thirty-eight schools over the course of his short life.

Family Life

His father, Johann Forselius, was a pastor and a Finnish-born Swede.

Associated With

He was born in the same country as poet Ernst Enno.

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