# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-ignatius-maria-forster
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:05:35.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-ignatius-maria-forster"
name: "Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster"
slug: "thomas-ignatius-maria-forster"
description: "Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster was an English astronomer, physician, naturalist and philosopher. An early animal rights activist, he promoted vegetarianism and founded the Animals' Friend Society with Lewis Gompertz. He published pamphlets on a wide variety of subjects, including morality, Pythagorean philosophy, bird migration, Sati, and \"phrenology\", a term that he coined in 1815."
tagline: "British astronomer, naturalist, and philosopher (1789-1860)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1789-11-09"
deathDate: "1860-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump