Georg Forster
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- Born
- 27 November 1754
- Died
- 10 January 1794
- Works
- 140
Top works
- Dissertatio inauguralis botanico-medica de plantis esculentis insularum oceani Australis
- Johann Reinhold Forster's Reise um die Welt wa hrend den Jahren 1772 bis 1775
- Ansichten Vom Niederrhein, Von Brabant, Flandern, Holland, England und Frankreich
- Werke
- Entdeckungsreise nach Tahiti und in die Südsee 1772-1775
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Georg Forster (ca. 1510 – 12 November 1568) was a German editor, composer and physician. Forster was born at Amberg, in the Upper Palatinate. While a chorister at Elector Ludwig V’s court in Heidelberg around 1521, he was a colleague of Caspar Othmayr who would also become a composer of renown. Forster received his first instruction in composition from the Kapellmeister Lorenz Lemlin. He died at Nuremberg. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Georg+Forster">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Key dates
- Born
- 1514
- Died
- 12 November 1568
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