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 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 126,435 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Johann Reinhold Forster is the 209th most popular biologist (up from 315th in 2019), the 345th most popular biography from Poland (up from 543rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 209 out of 1,097. Before him are Adam Afzelius, Waldemar Haffkine, J. B. S. Haldane, Pierre Belon, Mikhail Tsvet, and Friedrich Parrot. After him are Thomas Browne, Wilbur Scoville, Tomitaro Makino, Joseph Banks, Hans Driesch, and Hideyo Noguchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1729, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 12. Before him are Lazzaro Spallanzani, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Antonio Soler, and Johann Daniel Titius. After him are Giuseppe Sarti, Gaétan Vestris, Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg, William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, Anders Chydenius, and Pierre André de Suffren. Among people deceased in 1798, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 11. Before him are Heraclius II of Georgia, Rigas Feraios, George Vancouver, Christian Gottlob Neefe, Tarrare, and Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt. After him are Edward Waring, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, Yuan Mei, Infanta María Amalia of Spain, and Antoine de Chézy.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 345 out of 1,694. Before him are Roman Dmowski (1864), Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699), Johann Daniel Titius (1729), Fritz Gerlich (1883), Jerzy Kosiński (1933), and Maria Szymanowska (1789). After him are Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942), Elizabeth Richeza of Poland (1286), Muazzez Sultan (1628), Richard Pipes (1923), Werner Naumann (1909), and Anna Catherine Constance Vasa (1619).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Johann Reinhold Forster ranks 5. Before him are Ferdinand Cohn (1828), Günter Blobel (1936), Georg Forster (1754), and Adolf Engler (1844). After him are Julius von Sachs (1832), C. L. Gloger (1803), Gustav Radde (1831), Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799), Martin Rathke (1793), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), and Władysław Taczanowski (1819).

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