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Johann Reinhold Forster

1729 - 1798

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Johann Reinhold Forster (German: [ˈfɔʁstɐ]; 22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798) 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 Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin in 1745. Skilled in classical and biblical languages, he studied theology at the University of Halle. In 1753, he became a parson at a parish just south of Danzig. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Reinhold Forster is the 328th most popular biologist (down from 209th in 2019), the 433rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 345th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 328 out of 1,097. Before him are Willi Hennig, Andrew Fire, Erik Acharius, David Baltimore, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, and Carol W. Greider. After him are Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Hermann Burmeister, Charles M. Rice, Patrick Geddes, Jérôme Lejeune, and Edward Blyth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 14. Before him are Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Antonio Soler, Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, Johann Daniel Titius, and Giuseppe Sarti. After him are Florian Leopold Gassmann, William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, Christian Gottlob Heyne, Thomas Percy, Gaétan Vestris, and Michał Kazimierz Ogiński. Among people deceased in 1798, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 15. Before him are George Vancouver, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Heraclius II of Georgia, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Edward Waring, and Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder. After him are Yuan Mei, Infanta María Amalia of Spain, Antoine de Chézy, Gaetano Pugnani, Christian Cannabich, and François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 433 out of 1,694. Before him are Sendivogius (1566), Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942), Hermann von Eichhorn (1848), Karl Gützlaff (1803), Hugo Haase (1863), and Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz (1860). After him are Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Helene Deutsch (1884), Józef Beck (1894), Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste Sofie of Neuburg (1693), Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski (1734), and Richard Pipes (1923).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 6. Before him are Günter Blobel (1936), Georg Forster (1754), Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Adolf Engler (1844), and C. L. Gloger (1803). After him are Julius von Sachs (1832), Johannes Thiele (1860), Martin Rathke (1793), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Gustav Radde (1831), and Michael Sela (1924).

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