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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Georg Forster, Hermann Simon, Susanne Schroter, Gabriel Dessauer, Manfred Siebald, Paul Moskowitz, Herbert Arthur Stuart, Heinz-Jurgen Kluge, J. J. Becher, Helmut Ringsdorf, Karl Lehmann, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Fritz Strassmann, Karl Holzamer, Karl-Otto Apel, Peter Herbert Jensen, Hans Ostrom, Klaus Samelson, Arnold Flammersfeld, Claudia Eder, Karl Bechert, Walter Reppe, Leo Trepp, Diethard Hellmann, Ernst Kasemann, Samuel Thomas von Sommerring, Theodor Schieffer, Daniel Kehlmann, Thomas Metzinger, Joseph Lortz, Friedrich Wetter, Bertram Huppert, Jurgen W. Falter, Ulrich Forstermann, Georg Milbradt, Rodney Atkinson, Kurt Binder, Adam Contzen, Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, Jacob Fidelis Ackermann, Gottfried Munzenberg, Karl-Ludwig Kratz, Leopold Horner, Werner Kern, Alfred Kroner, Jurgen Gauss, Hans Vermeer. 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 (Vilnius University) (1784-1787). He then (1788) became head librarian ..
