Bengt Gottfried Forselius, Swedish-Estonian scholar and author (born 1660)

Bengt Gottfried Forselius

Estonian writer

Bengt Gottfried Forselius was a founder of public education in Estonia, author of the first ABC-book in the Estonian language, and creator of a spelling system which made the teaching and learning of Estonian easier. Forselius and Johann Hornung were mainly responsible for…