Friedrich Christoph Förster

[1] At the outbreak of the War of Liberation against Napoleon in 1813, he joined the Lützow Free Corps with Theodor Körner, quickly attaining the rank of captain.

On the conclusion of the war, he was appointed professor at the school of engineering and artillery in Berlin, but on account of some democratic writings he was dismissed from this office in 1817.

He then became connected with various journals until about 1829, when he received an appointment at the royal museum in Berlin, with the title of court councillor (German: Hofrat).

[1] Many of his lesser writings were collected and published as Kriegslieder, Romanzen, Erzählungen und Legenden ("War songs, romances, stories and legends," Berlin, 1838).

The beginning of an autobiography of Förster, edited by H. Kletke, has been published under the title, Kunst und Leben ("Art and Life," Berlin, 1873).