FORSTER. 
-didtionary, which — bud hap ie in 1557. There 
were two otner per me name: 
Lutheran divine, pote at Wntebe Bsa and 
wher 
Ejifleben, e he died in 
minifter at 
e was author of com- 
’ iah, in three vols. 
t e * De interpreta 
and other critical and hong! produto 
John Forfter, entitled to novices was a jerif t Padua, and 
author © k entitled « Proceffus aie Ca- 
en. Bio 
Forster, se s learned ae of the chum of 
England, was born a 
2917. Soon after his beh his father, ae wa 
removed to Plymouth, w where he acne his fon’; in are 
elements of learning, and then fent him to the grammar- 
{chool of that town, of which he was the head fcholar 
before he was thirteen yearsofage. In 1731 he was removed 
he fam e time entered at Pembroke college, 
exhibi. 
tion of fort rannum, In 1733 h 
fcholar of Corp Chrift eallege, a atter ecaking his de- 
eGted fellow in the yea n the fame 
meets 
a prie is time was cee pet bas college in a 
clofe application to his findies, by wh ie acquired a 
pu Peat and a vait kr Seige a e dead lan- 
ae ment in the rch was mele rectory 
ee rdfhire, w ‘hich was Ae sack to him 
in 1749 by the lord. image! pean et on the recom. 
xford, his earlict 
im e notice of Dr. But 
f Briflol, ce appointed him i 
was tranflated to the fee of 
. Forfler now as sa ea 
f do of divin 
of Durl 1am till the 
one of his majefty’s chaplains, and appointed 
e In 1757 he married a lady 
i i Weit- 
€ 
infter ; bu ore the end of the r he died 
‘mi ng his connections and friends: he could rank almoft 
all the eminent his time, and he left cn ee a 
174 [ain Liven’, continens I. feletus Codicumn 
Mee et eepeinese oy uarum leétiones, precipuas va- 
iorum emendationes, et {upplementa lacunarum in iis T, 
Livii que faperfunt Horie. II. J. Frienfhemti fupplemento- 
rum libros X. in locum decadisfecunde Liviane deperditz,”’ 
1746. ‘ Biblia Hebraica, i punctis, accurante Nath. 
Forfter, &c. 5 1750." en, Biog. 
"Forster, | aeass HOLD, an eminent naturalift and 
philologitt, was the’ n of a burgomafter at Dirfchaw, in 
Polifh Pruffia, where he was born is the 22d, in the 
the one a 
“tuition of Menzelius ~ Heinfius 
year 1729, Jn early youth he had few advantages for edu 
cation ; but about the age of fifteen year: % he was admitted 
into the gymnafium of Joachimithal at 
progrefs in the learn anguages : aid he alfo 
art of his attention . the ftudy of the Coptic, ae ren the 
acquilition of feveral nae ~~ gece and particu. 
larly the Polifh. r 1748, he was enter . at the 
wsiverlity of Halle, mae he he hudied theology, and con- 
tinued his application to the learned languages, ee 
ani ch he oe ed a oriental. After three years 
he remov 
preacher, imitating the French rather ce es 
ner; and in 1753, he obtained a fettlem 
In the following aes he seatlage ste his corte | 
kolai. During his s place, 
leifure hours in the “fhady o ‘ilotophy peonraphy, and 
the mathematics, without defifling rther improve» 
new colonies at Saratow. Much hy however, as he was ap- 
~ during an interview haa the m 
ent at Peterfburgh, circumftances occur 
se his new a coin ent of ree eerie 
return to the capital, advantageous offers were n made to him 
both by the academy - — and by that of Mofcow, 
whi 
beth ch he thou roper to. decline. ee for 
fome time snes unnvling expectations from the Ruf- 
fian government, he ved to London in the year 17 
with ftr ittle money 
dition to his fto *s 
eck’s Voyage. e lord Baltimore io ae 
to ca a fettlement in Anais as fuperintendant of 
extenfive property in that country; but he preferred the 
place of teacher of the French, German, a natural hif- 
f 
tory in the diffenting academy at Warringto his fitua- 
however, he foo pp ed; and oan to Lon- 
don, he was engaged, in the year 1772, to accompany 
work in Latin, containing pa varaGter 
nera oe plants, whi ion ey 
na 
their voyage. 
en engagem not 
are) from ne si ed sere a » he 
the a gor i of government, and gave onesie to his 
o his 
aad diftrefiing rer appily for Mr. 
vited, in 1780, to be profeffor of sani ies at Halles : 
he was alfo appointed infpetor of the botanical garden ; 
and 
