Education
He studied under Karl Leonhard Reinhold at Jena.
Librarian philosopher university professor
He studied under Karl Leonhard Reinhold at Jena.
He was a headmaster at Saalfeld/Saale, and from 1801 to 1826 Director of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek. His philosophical publications are less known now than his 1824 edition of an erotic poem sequence in renaissance Latin, Hermaphroditus by Antonio Beccadelli. This was accompanied by Forberg"s own learned commentary, which took the form of a catalogue and anthology of descriptions of sexual acts and postures in classical and later literature.