Georg Forster

Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster, was a German geographer, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific. His report of that journey, A Voyage Round the World, contributed significantly to the ethnology of the people of Polynesia and remains a respected work. As a result of the report, Forster, who was admitted to the Royal Society at the early age of twenty-two, came to be considered one of the founders of modern scientific travel literature.

27 November 1754

Born on the same birth day (27 November): Boris Grebenshchikov • Bruno Alves • Charles A. Beard • Fe del Mundo • Frank Boeijen • Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar • Gilbert Strang • Henry Carr • Jimmy Rollins • Lashana Lynch • Marshall Thompson • Mike Skinner (musician) • Pierre Dupuy (scholar) • Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet • Xavi Torres • Yulia Tymoshenko