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BIOLOGIST

Johann Reinhold Forster

1729 - 1798

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Johann Reinhold Forster (22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798) was a German Reformed (Calvinist) pastor and naturalist of partially Scottish descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America. He is best known as the naturalist on James Cook's second Pacific voyage, where he was accompanied by his son Georg Forster. These expeditions promoted the career of Johann Reinhold Forster and the findings became the bedrock of colonial professionalism and helped set the stage for the future development of anthropology and ethnology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Reinhold Forster has received more than 115,103 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Johann Reinhold Forster is the 316th most popular biologist (down from 196th in 2019), the 543rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 329th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 316 out of 841. Before him are Eric F. Wieschaus, Richard Henderson, George Robert Gray, Martin Vahl, Patrick Geddes, and Eugenius Warming. After him are Eugene Odum, Albert Günther, Robert Fortune, Anders Sparrman, Guillaume Rondelet, and Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 16. Before him are Antonio Soler, Johann Daniel Titius, Giuseppe Sarti, Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, Florian Leopold Gassmann, and William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe. After him are Pierre André de Suffren, Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, Gaétan Vestris, Christian Gottlob Heyne, Anders Chydenius, and Michael von Melas. Among people deceased in 1798, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 15. Before him are Heraclius II of Georgia, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Infanta María Amalia of Spain, Edward Waring, Tarrare, and Gaetano Pugnani. After him are François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Christian Cannabich, Antoine de Chézy, Yuan Mei, Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, 10th Count of Aranda, and John Fitch.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 543 out of 1,454. Before him are Isaac Deutscher (1907), Ignacy Krasicki (1735), Cyprian Norwid (1821), Alfred Józef Potocki (1817), Andrzej Szarmach (1950), and Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1863). After him are Max von Gallwitz (1852), Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Heinrich Graetz (1817), Bolesław the Pious (1225), Ernst Niekisch (1889), and Daniel Chodowiecki (1726).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 5. Before him are Günter Blobel (1936), Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Georg Forster (1754), and Adolf Engler (1844). After him are Julius von Sachs (1832), Martin Rathke (1793), C. L. Gloger (1803), Johannes Thiele (1860), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), Gustav Radde (1831), and Władysław Taczanowski (1819).

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