Förster

Förster or Foerster is a German surname meaning "forester". (It has often been Anglicised as Forster). Notable people of this name include:

## Förster

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* Arnold Förster (1810–1884), a German entomologist
* August Förster (physician) (1822–1865), a German anatomist and pathologist
* Bernd Förster (born 1956), a German footballer (brother of Karlheinz)
* Christoph Förster (1693–1745), a German composer
* Eckart Förster, a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University
* 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, August Förster (de)
* Friedrich Christoph Förster (1791–1868), a German historian and poet
* Friedrich Förster (1908–1999), a German spec. NDT, 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

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* 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

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* Foerster Peak
* Forester (disambiguation)
* Forrester (surname)
* Forster (surname)
* Foster (disambiguation)
* Fosters (disambiguation)
* Vorster

Surname list

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