BIOLOGIST

Georg Forster

1754 - 1794

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Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster (German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfɔʁstɐ]; 27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Forster is the 74th most popular biologist (up from 110th in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Poland (up from 194th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Biologist.

Georg Forster is most famous for being the first person to publish a description of Tahiti in his book, "A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1772, 1773, and 1774."

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Georg Forster ranks 74 out of 1,097. Before him are Dian Fossey, George Shaw, Adelbert von Chamisso, Günter Blobel, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, and Elizabeth Blackburn. After him are Alexander Oparin, Michael Houghton, Max Theiler, Richard Owen, Ralph M. Steinman, and Archibald Hill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Georg Forster ranks 6. Before him are Louis XVI of France, Paul I of Russia, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, and Joseph Proust. After him are Seraphim of Sarov, Madame Roland, Jacques Pierre Brissot, Frederick I of Württemberg, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, and Antoine Destutt de Tracy. Among people deceased in 1794, Georg Forster ranks 10. Before him are Marquis de Condorcet, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Cesare Beccaria, Edward Gibbon, Camille Desmoulins, and Élisabeth of France. After him are Alexandre de Beauharnais, André Chénier, Georges Couthon, William Jones, Jacques Hébert, and Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Georg Forster ranks 107 out of 1,694. Before him are Norbert Elias (1897), Egon Krenz (1937), Günter Blobel (1936), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Catherine Jagiellon (1526), and Marie Walewska (1786). After him are Henryk Wieniawski (1835), Dziga Vertov (1896), Saint Casimir (1458), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), and Ulrich Beck (1944).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Georg Forster ranks 2. Before him are Günter Blobel (1936). After him are Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Adolf Engler (1844), C. L. Gloger (1803), Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Julius von Sachs (1832), Johannes Thiele (1860), Martin Rathke (1793), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Gustav Radde (1831), and Michael Sela (1924).

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