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FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH FORSTER (1791-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 674 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH See also:FORSTER (1791-1868)  , See also:German historian and poet, was the second son of Karl Christoph See also:Forster (1751-1811), and consequently a See also:brother of the painter, Ernest See also:Joachim Forster (1800-1885) . See also:Born at Munchengosserstadt on the See also:Saale on the 24th of See also:September 1791, he received his See also:early See also:education at See also:Altenburg, and after a course of See also:theology at See also:Jena, devoted some See also:time to See also:archaeology and the See also:history of See also:art . At the outbreak of the See also:War of Liberation in 1813, he joined the See also:army; quickly attaining the See also:rank of See also:captain; and by his war-songs added to the See also:national See also:enthusiasm . On the conclusion of the war he was appointed See also:professor at the school of See also:engineering and See also:artillery in See also:Berlin, but on See also:account of some democratic writings he was dismissed from this See also:office in 1817 . He then became connected with various See also:journals until about 1829, when he received an See also:appointment at the royal museum in Berlin, with the See also:title of See also:court councillor (Hofrat) . He was the founder and secretary of the Wissenschaftlicher Kunstverein in Berlin, and died in Berlin on the 8th of See also:November ,868 . Forster's See also:principal See also:works are: Beitrage zur neueren Kriegsgeschichte (Berlin, 1816); Grundziige der Geschichte See also:des preussischen Staates (Berlin, x818); Der Feldmarschall See also:Blucher and See also:seine Umgebungen (See also:Leipzig, 1820); See also:Friedrich der See also:Grosse, Jugendjahre, Bildung and Geist (Berlin, 1822); Albrecht von See also:Wallenstein (See also:Potsdam, 1834); Friedrich Wilhelm I., See also:Konig von Preussen (Potsdam, 1834-1835); See also:Die Hbfe and Kabinette Europas See also:im 18 . Jahrhundert (Potsdam, 1836-1839); Leben and Taten Friedrichs des Grossen (See also:Meissen, 1840-1842); Wallensteins Prozess (Leipzig, 1844); and Preussens Heiden in Krieg and Frieden, neuere and neueste preussische Geschichte, 7 volumes (Berlin, 1849-186o) . The three concluding volumes of this See also:work contain the history of the war of liberation of 1813-14-15 . He brought out an edition of See also:Hegel's works, adapted several of See also:Shakespeare's plays for the See also:theatre, wrote a number of poems and an See also:historical See also:drama, Gustav Adolf (Berlin, 1832) . Many of his lesser writings were collected and published as Kriegslieder, Romanzen, Erzahlungen and Legenden (Berlin, 1838) . The beginning of an autobiography of Forster, edited by H .

Kletke, has been published under the title, Kunst and Leben (Berlin, 1873) .

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