Ossian Edmund Borg

Ossian Edmund Borg (6 August 1812 – 10 April 1892) was a Swedish teacher of the deaf and head of the Manillaskolan school for the deaf. He was the son of Pär Aron Borg, pioneer of deaf schooling in Sweden.

Life and work Borg was born 6 August 1812 in Hedvig Eleonora Parish, Stockholm, Sweden, to Pär Aron Borg, three years after his father founded (Manillaskolan), the first school for the deaf in Sweden.

Borg began his studies in Uppsala, Sweden, in 1832; he had decided on the medical field and was ready to take his bachelor's degree in medicine when his studies were interrupted due to the death of his father in 1839. Borg was immediately appointed director and first teacher at the Institute for the Deaf and Blind; he had previously run the institute during his father's trips abroad. Borg would subsequently devote his entire life to the further expansion and development of the institute.

Special grants from King Oscar I and the Riksdag in 1844 enabled Borg to build a completely new department for the blind, which had previously been housed with the others in the main building, and also to erect a new main building on the site in 1864. He retired in 1875,