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Georg Forster
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Vinony's link graph records 15 inbound references to Georg Forster, and connects out to International Standard Book Number, Nuremberg and Heidelberg.
It sits within the topics 1510s births, 1568 deaths and Biography articles needing translation from German Wikipedia.
Vinony links it to 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 27 November 1754
- Died
- 10 January 1794
- Works
- 140
Top works
- Lichtsrahlen aus seinen Werken
- Reply to Mr. Wales's remarks
- 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
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1514
- Active to
- 1568
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 204
- Total plays
- 2,461
Tags
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>
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Georg
- Family name
- Forster
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Amberg
- Place of death
- Nuremberg
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- German
- Movement
- German Renaissance
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- date of birth
- 1514-00-00
- date of death
- 1568-11-12
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
Sources (2)
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Georg Forster, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Available in 9 languages
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