Memorable Manitobans: Fridrik Jonsson Bergmann (c1858-1918)

Professor.

Born in Iceland, he went to the United States in 1874 and graduated from Decorah College, Iowa. He was invited to become a professor of Icelandic at Winnipeg’s Wesley College in 1902. Noted as a littérateur, he was hit by an automobile on Sherbrook Street and died almost instantly.

Source:

Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by J. M. Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.

Profile revised: 27 July 2008

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