In 1776 he joined a ship of the Swedish East India Company from Gothenburg to China, but fled in Cape Town in April and in September he enlisted as a student of the University of Greifswald, which then was situated in Swedish Pomerania.
Bengt-Åke Lundvall | Bengt Erland Fogelberg | Bengt af Klintberg | Bengt Nordén | Bengt Magnusson (Bjälboäten) | Bengt Lindroos | Bengt Lidner | Bengt Lidforss | Bengt Holgersson | Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna | Bengt Edlén | Bengt |
Widstrom was very well known and admired by her contemporaries and artists, such as Carl Gustaf af Leopold, Bengt Lidner, Thomas Thorild and Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom.