Johann Reinhold Forster, German pastor, botanist, and ornithologist (born 1729)

Johann Reinhold Forster

German naturalist (1729–1798)

Johann Reinhold Forster was a German Reformed pastor and naturalist. Born in Dirschau, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, he attended school in Dirschau and Marienwerder before being admitted at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin in 1745. Skilled in…