Johann Reinhold Forster

Johann Reinhold Forster (22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798) was a German pastor^[1][2] and naturalist. He was part Scottish. He helped early ornithology from Europe and North America. He is best known as the naturalist on James Cook's second Pacific voyage. On this trip, he was with his son, Georg Forster.^[3]

Johann Reinhold Forster
Born	(1729-10-22)22 October 1729 Tczew (Dirschau), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Died	9 December 1798(1798-12-09) (aged 69) Halle (Saale)
Scientific career
Fields	Natural history, ethnology
Author abbrev. (botany)	J.R.Forst

References

1. (in German) Dove, Alfred. "Forster, Johann Reinhold" in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, v.7 (1878), pp. 166–172.
2. (in German) Karl Ludwig Preuß: Dirschau's historische Denkwürdigkeiten. Für das 600jährige Jubelfest der Stadt (20. August 1860). Kafemann, Danzig 1860, pp. 39–44.
3. Richard Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600–1860 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp 309–375.

Other websites

• Scans of Specimen Historiae Naturalis Volgensis at the Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum
• Biography at the Australian Dictionary of Biography
• SUB Göttingen Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine Forster, J. R. 1771.Novæ species insectorum. Centuria I. Londini. (Davies, White).
• Gaedike, R.; Groll, E. K. & Taeger, A. 2012: Bibliography of the entomological literature from the beginning until 1863 : online database – version 1.0 – Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut.
• Indische Zoologie 1781
• The Resolution journal of Johann Reinhold Forster, 1772-1775. Royal Geographical Society of South Australia