Johann Georg Adam (Georg) Forster
1754–94
German naturalist, writer, and ethnologist. Son of Johann Reinhold Forster. Translator and naturalist on James Cook’s second voyage round the world, 1772–5. Professor of natural history, Kassel, 1779–84; Vilneus, 1784–7. Librarian, Mainz, 1788–92. Representative of German national convention in Paris, 1792.
Sources
DBE
ODNB.
Bibliography
DBE: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie. Edited by Walter Killy et al. 12 vols. in 14. Munich: K. G. Saur. 1995–2000.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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