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Georg Forster


 

Johann Georg Adam Forster (November 26, 1754 ? January 10, 1794) was a German botanical collector, artist, and revolutionist born in Poland. He took part in James Cook's second expedition to the Pacific.

Bibliography

  • A Voyage round the World in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop Resolution, Commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the Years, 1772, 3, 4, and 5 (1777)
  • Journal of travels in Poland (August-November, 1784), The Warsaw Voice, 1990 31 8-9
  • Dissertatio botanico-medica de plantis esculentis insularum oceani Australis (1785)
  • Essays on the moral and natural geography, natural history and phylosophy (1789-1797)
  • Views of the Lower Rhine, Brabant, Flanders (three volumes, 1791-1794)
  • Letters (posthumous compilation of his correspondence, 1828)