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FORSTER, FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH (1791-1868)

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FORSTER, See also:FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH (1791-1868) , See also:German historian and poet, was the second son of Karl Christoph 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); 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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