Förster or Foerster is a
German
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surname meaning "
forester
A forester is a person who practises forest management and forestry, the science, art, and profession of managing forests. Foresters engage in a broad range of activities including ecological restoration and management of protected areas. Fores ...
". (It has often been Anglicised as
Forster). Notable people of this name include:
Förster
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Arnold Förster
Arnold Förster (20 January 1810 – 13 August 1884) was a German entomologist, who worked mainly on Coleoptera and Hymenoptera.
Life
Arnold Förster was born on 20 January 1810 in Aachen, Germany, where he died on 12 August 1884. He was Oberleh ...
(1810–1884), a German entomologist
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August Förster (physician) (1822–1865), a German anatomist and pathologist
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Bernd Förster (born 1956), a German footballer (brother of Karlheinz)
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Christoph Förster (1693–1745), a German composer
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Eckart Förster, a professor of philosophy at
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...
* Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846–1935), the sister of Friedrich Nietzsche
* Emmanuel Aloys Förster (1748–1823), a musician and teacher in Vienna
* Ernst Joachim Förster (1800–1885), a German art critic
* Franz Förster (1819–1878), a German jurist
* Friedrich August Förster (1829–1897), a German piano maker and entrepreneur, :de:August_Förster_(Unternehmer), August Förster (de)
* Friedrich Christoph Förster (1791–1868), a German historian and poet
* Friedrich Förster (1908–1999), a German spec. NDT, :ru:Фёрстер,_Фридрих_(физик), Фёрстер, Фридрих (ru)
* Heiko Mathias Förster (born 1966), German conductor
* Heinrich Förster (bishop) (1800–1881), a German Roman Catholic bishop
* Helmuth Förster (1889–1965), a ''Luftwaffe'' general during World War II
* Karl Förster (1784–1841), a German poet and translator
* Karlheinz Förster (born 1958), a German football player (brother of Bernd)
* Kerstin Förster (born 1965), a German rower (wife of Olaf)
* Ludwig Förster (1797–1863), an architect
* Olaf Förster (born 1962), a German rower (husband of Kerstin)
* Theodor Förster (1910–1974), a physicist and chemist, discoverer of Förster resonance energy transfer
Foerster
* Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002), an Austro-American founder of cybernetics
* Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859–1951), a Czech composer of classical music
* Otfrid Foerster (1873–1941), a German neurologist
* Tyson Foerster (born 2002), ice hockey player
* Wendelin Förster (or Foerster) (1844–1915), German philologist and Arthurian scholar
* Wilhelm Julius Förster (or Foerster) (1832–1921), a German astronomer
See also
* Foerster Peak
* Forester (disambiguation)
* Forrester (surname)
* Forster (surname)
* Foster (disambiguation)
* Fosters (disambiguation)
* Vorster
{{surname, Förster or Foerster
German-language surnames
German occupational surnames