Georg Forster's Sämmtliche Schriften
By: herausgegeben von dessen Tochter ; und begleitet mit einer Charakteristik Forster's von G.G. Gervinus
Contributors: Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798; Gervinus, Georg Gottfried, 1805-1871; Gervinus, Georg Gottfried, 1805-1871
Publisher: F.A. Brockhaus
Published: 1843
Place of publication: Leipzig
Language: ger; fre; lat
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Description: First collected ed. of the works of George Forster who had sailed as a naturalist on Cook's second voyage (1772-1775). It includes a biography and critical appreciation of Forster by G.G. Gervinus. The first two vols. comprise Forster's account of Cook's second voyage. Printed here is his final revision of the text, published in German in 1784, including material not found in the 1777 English original and superior to the earlier German ed. of 1778-1780. Forster became involved in radical politics and published here are his political writings concerning the French Revolution and the republican movement in Mainz, a city which he represented in Paris at the 1793 National Convention.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1.-2. Bd. Johann Reinhold Forster's und Georg Forster's Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1772 bis 1775; title: 3. Bd. Ansichten vom Niederrhein, von Brabant, Flandern, Holland, England und Frankreich im April, Mai und Junius [1790]; title: 4.-6. Bd. Kleine Schriften; title: 7. Bd. Johann Georg Forster / von G.G. Gervinus. Briefwechsel; title: 8. Bd. Briefwechsel; title: 9. Bd.; title: Briefwechsel. Sakontala.