Johann forster biography
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Scientist of the Day - Johann Reinhold Forster
Jasper medallion portrait of Johann Reinhold Forster, by Wedgwood and Bentley, , National Museum of Australia
Johann Reinhold Forster, a German naturalist and pastor, died Dec. 9, , at age Forster was born in Germany to parents of Scottish descent. He studied natural history in Berlin and theology in Halle, and became a minister. In , he, with his oldest son Georg, moved to England to take up a teaching position, perhaps motivated (as was emigrant William Herschel) by the fact that England now had a German king, George III. At the school, the Unitarian Warrington Academy in Lancashire, Johann succeeded Joseph Priestley. In , Johann and Georg moved to London, where he spent his time translating Peter Kalm's Travels into North America from Swedish via German to English, which was published in , a 3-volume work that we have in our collections (second and third images). It apparently brought him to the attention of th
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Johann Reinhold Forster was born on 22 October at Dirschau, Polish Prussia {Tczew, Poland}, the only child of the marriage of Georg Reinhold Forster and the widow Eva Platt in In Johann Reinhold attended the Joachimsthal-Gymnasium, and from to the Friedrichs University, Berlin, where he studied mostly theology. On 26 February Forster married his cousin Justina Elisabeth née Nicolai (b 15 August ), daughter of Carl Benjamin and Susanna Nicolai. Their son George, christened Johann George Adam, was the oldest of seven surviving children (one child died at birth). George, known as Georg in German literature, was born on 26 November at the rectory in Nassenhuben, where Johann Reinhold was a pastor for almost 12 years. Johann Reinhold found pastoral work at the Nassenhuben rectory stifling and, after a journey to Russia (March to August ) by invitation, he moved to England, taking George with him. Johann Reinhold tutored in modern languages and natural history at the Warrington Academy in
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Johann Reinhold Forster
German naturalist (–)
Johann Reinhold Forster (22 October – 9 December ) was a German Reformed pastor and naturalist.
Born in Dirschau, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (now Tczew, Poland), he attended school in Dirschau and Marienwerder before being admitted at the Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium in Berlin in Skilled in classical and biblical languages, he studied theology at the University of Halle. In , he became a parson at a parish just south of Danzig. He married his cousin Justina Elisabeth Nicolai in , and they had seven children; the oldest child was George Forster, also known as Georg.
In , Forster was commissioned by the Russian government to inspect the new colonies on the Volga. Accompanied by George on the journey, he observed the conditions of the colonists and made scientific observations that were later read at the Russian Academy of Sciences. After making a report that was critical of the Russian administration, F