Frans Swagers

Frans Swagers was a teacher and author of language courses.
After basic education in Antwerp, he earned a teaching diploma in Ghent. On October 1, 1887, he became a teacher at the Urban Schools of Antwerp.
He wrote textbooks for the French, English and German languages using the popular Gouïn method, based on the ideas of Nicolas Gouïn Dufief,, a Frenchman whose wrote an essay entitled The Philosophy of Language during a visit in the United States. The first known edition was published in 1904; it was republished again in the 1940s.
Swagers was also active in the Esperanto movement. Together with Adolf Finet, he pushed the Esperanto course Esperanto. La Ĉiutaga Vivo '''' for Dutch- and French-speaking learners using the same method. Similar courses for German- and English-speaking learners followed.