Therese Huber
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Therese Huber was a German writer. She was one of the so-called Universitätsmamsellen, a group of five academically active women during the mid-18th and early 19th centuries. The group consisted of da
Therese Huber on a miniature by Johannes Schreiber, 1804
Georg Forster
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Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster, was a German-Polish geographer, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his fathe
Georg Forster in 1781, age 26
James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Resolution and Adventure in Matavai Bay by William Hodges
One of Forster's many illustrations of birds now extinct, the Tanna ground dove, also known as Forster's dove of Tanna