Georg Forster
German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary (1754-1794) · Germany · Writers · Died at 39
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Something wrong?He sailed with Cook at seventeen, wrote one of the clearest accounts of what Europeans found in the Pacific, and got elected to the Royal Society before he could legally drink in most countries today. Then he threw it all in with the French Revolution and died in exile at thirty-nine.
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, The degree of pleasure which may result from the perusal of a work, depends not only upon the variety of the subject, but likewise upon the purity and graces of style.
[...] each vulgar opinion, proved to be erroneous, is an approximation to truth [...].
It is the natural fault of young people to think too well of mankind [...].
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Georg Forster joined his father on James Cook's second Pacific voyage as a teenager; his book A Voyage Round the World became a founding text of scientific travel writing and earned him a Royal Society seat at twenty-two. He spent the next decade teaching natural history in Kassel and Vilnius, then landed as head librarian at the University of Mainz in 1788, translating Cook's diaries and writing essays that would shape Alexander von Humboldt's thinking. When French forces took Mainz in 1792, Forster helped establish the Mainz Republic, Germany's first attempt at republican government. He went to Paris as a delegate in July 1793; by the time he arrived, Prussian and Austrian troops had retaken the city and declared him an outlaw. Cut off from Germany, his family, and his old Enlightenment circle, he died of illness in Paris on 10 January 1794.
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