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Authorised form of nameForster; George (1754 - 1794)
Other forms of nameJohann Georg Adam
Georg
Dates1754 - 1794
Place of birthHis father's parish of Nassenhuben, near Danzig [Gdansk, Poland]
Date of birth27 November 1754
Place of deathParis, France
Date of death10 January 1794
Research fieldNatural philosophy
Geography
ActivityEducation:
MD (Wilna)
Career:
Professor of Natural History, Cassel (1779); Professor of Natural history, Wilna, Lithuania (1784); became friends with Humboldt (FRS 1815) at Gottingen
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/01/1777
RelationshipsSon of Johann Reinhold Forster FRS (1722)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Notes:
Index to BR enters him as George, by which name, according to DNB, he was commonly known. In R, however, he is entered as 'Georg Forster'.
CodeNA6566
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/001499Forster, George2001
MS/391/178Bond of George Forster to the Treasurer of the Royal Society29 January 1777
EC/1776/22Forster, George: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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