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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)
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See also: Born at Munchengosserstadt on the See also: Saale on the 24th of See also: September 1791, he received his 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 archaeology and the See also: history of See also: art
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At the outbreak of the War of Liberation in 1813, he joined the army; quickly attaining the See also: rank of captain; and by his war-songs added to the See also: national See also: enthusiasm
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On the conclusion of the war he was appointed professor at the school of See also: engineering and artillery in Berlin, but on account of some democratic writings he was dismissed from this office in 1817
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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 title of See also: court councillor (Hofrat)
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He was the founder and secretary of the Wissenschaftlicher Kunstverein in Berlin, and died in Berlin on the 8th of See also: November ,868
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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 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 Wallenstein (See also: Potsdam, 1834);
Friedrich Wilhelm I., See also: Konig von Preussen (Potsdam, 1834-1835); Die Hbfe and Kabinette Europas See also: im 18
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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)
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The three concluding volumes of this See also: work contain the history of the war of liberation of 1813-14-15
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He brought out an edition of Hegel's works, adapted several of See also: Shakespeare's plays for the theatre, wrote a number of poems and an See also: historical drama, Gustav Adolf (Berlin, 1832)
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Many of his lesser writings were collected and published as Kriegslieder, Romanzen, Erzahlungen and Legenden (Berlin, 1838)
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The beginning of an autobiography of Forster, edited by H
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Kletke, has been published under the title, Kunst and Leben (Berlin, 1873) . |
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