Forster, Georg, 1754-1794
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A voyage round the world, in His Britannic Majesty's sloop, Resolution, commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4, and 5book chapter 1777
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Run from the society to the Friendly Islandsbook chapter 1777
- Summary
- Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster, was a German-Polish geographer, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific. His report of that journey, A Voyage Round the World, contributed significantly to the ethnology of the people of Polynesia and remains a respected work. As a result of the report, Forster, who was admitted to the Royal Society at the early age of twenty-two, came to be considered one of the founders of modern scientific travel literature. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
- Born
- 1754-11-27 [2][6]
- Birth Place
- Mokry Dwór [2]
- Mokry Dwór, Pomeranian Voivodeship [6][6]
- Died
- 1794-01-10 [2][6]
- Death Place
- Paris [2][6]
- Country
- Poland [2]
- Lithuania [2]
- Germany [2]
- France [2]
- Website
- https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb02/institute/germanistik/fachgebiete/neuere-deutsche-literaturwissenschaft/prof-dr-stefan-greif/georg-forster-gesellschaft.html [6]
- Language
- German [3][4]
- Occupation
- Dabaszinātnieks [4]
- Rakstnieks [4]
- Etnologs [4]
- Žurnālists [4]
- explorer [6]
- anthropologist [6]
- ethnologist [6]
- pteridologist [6]
- librarian [6]
- writer [6]
- translator [6]
- ornithologist [6]
- revolutionary [6]
- biologist [6]
- botanist [6]
- university teacher [6]
- journalist [6]
- entomologist [6]
- mycologist [6]
- autobiographer [6]
- naturalist [6]
- art historian [6]
- geographer [6]
- traveler [6]
- scientific explorer [6]
- travel writer [6]
- botanical collector [6]
- scientific collector [6]
- Employer
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz [6]
- Vilnius University [6]
- Field of Activity
- Etnoloģija [4]
- Žurnālistika [4]
- Dabaszinātnes [4]
- Educated at
- Saint Peter's School [6]
- Country of Education
- Russia [6]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [6]
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [6]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [6]
- British Museum person-institution thesaurus
- Entry [6]
- Oxford Reference
- Overview [6]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. National Library of Latvia
- 5. National Library and Archives of Québec
- 6. Wikidata
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