Johann Georg(e) Forster (1754-1794), writer, made his first voyage of exploration - to Russia - with his father when he was eleven. A linguistic prodigy, he travelled on the Resolution as his father's assistant. His elegantly-written scientific account of the voyage was a bestseller, and he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In Europe from 1778, he taught at various universities and continued to travel and publish; the German translation of his account of the Resolution voyage, Reise um die Welt, was published in 1778 and significantly influenced contemporary German scientific and intellectual currents. In the early 1790s he became entangled in French revolutionary affairs, alienating his wife and friends; branded a traitor, he died alone in Paris, predeceasing his father without having realised his dream of producing an encyclopaedic account of the South Seas.
