Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster
Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster was an English astronomer, physician, naturalist and philosopher. An early animal rights activist, he promoted vegetarianism and founded the Animals' Friend Society with Lewis Gompertz. He published pamphlets on a wide variety of subjects, including morality, Pythagorean philosophy, bird migration, Sati, and "phrenology", a term that he coined in 1815.
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- London
- Educated at
- Corpus Christi College
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- 🏆 Fellow of the Linnean Society of London🏆 Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
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1789
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