Heinrich Forster, a German pulpit orator of the Roman Catholic church, born in Glo-gau, Prussian Silesia, Nov. 24, 1800. He studied theology in Breslau, was ordained as priest in 1825, appointed canon of the cathedral in 1837, afterward inspector of the theological seminary and preacher at the cathedral. He opposed with great zeal the influence of Rongc, became in 1848 a member of the Frankfort parliament, attended in the same year the synod of the German bishops at Wurzburg, and was made in 1853 prince-bishop of Breslau. As an author he made himself popular by his Lehens-bild Diepenbrock's (2d ed., Breslau, 1859), and several other works.