German Mycologists: Heinrich Anton de Bary, Rolf Singer, Georg Forster, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Carl Friedrich Philipp Von Martius

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Heinrich Anton de Bary, Rolf Singer, Georg Forster, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Carl Correns, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Jacob Christian Schaffer, Nathanael Pringsheim, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, Ludwig Reichenbach, August Batsch, Julius Oscar Brefeld, Franz von Paula Schrank, Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, Christian Ehrenfried Weigel, Joseph Schroter, Johann Jacob Dillenius, Curt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, Felix von Thumen, Hermann Hoffmann, Paul Christoph Hennings, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Joseph Gaertner, Johannes Baptista von Albertini, Robert Hartig, Hans Kniep, Heinrich Rehm, Gustav Lindau, Adalbert Ricken, Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, Julius von Flotow, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Max Britzelmayr, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Gustav Kunze, Paul Kummer, Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel, Hans Sydow, Paul Sydow. Excerpt: Johann Georg Adam Forster (November 27, 1754 - January 10, 1794) was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific. His report from 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 was admitted to the Royal Society at the early age of twenty-two and came to be considered one of the founders of modern scientific travel literature. After returning to continental Europe, Forster turned toward academia. He traveled to Paris to seek out a discussion with the American revolutionary Benjamin Franklin in 1777. He taught natural history at the Collegium Carolinum in Kassel (1778-1784), and later at Academy of Vilna (V...