Christian Gotthilf Salzmann

Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1 July 1744 – 31 October 1811) was a German educational reformer and the founder of the Schnepfenthal institution.

Salzmann wrote Bibliothek für Jünglinge und Mädchen, giving instructions on how to teach religion to children, but it was widely rejected by his superiors.

[1] Salzmann's work reached the British public as Elements of Morality for the Use of Children (1790-91), under the auspices of the liberal publisher Joseph Johnson.

This was written by Mary Wollstonecraft, who began the work as a translation, but "made the stories English, and added and altered where necessary", according to Janet Todd.

The main translation of her magnum opus was performed by one of the teachers at his school, Georg Friedrich Christian Weissenborn, but Salzmann employed the author's licence to make what Robinson called "edifying improvements".