Forster received his Diplom in 1960 from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. There he received in 1961 his doctorate. His thesis Banachalgebren stetiger Funktionen auf kompakten Rumen (Banach algebras of continuous functions on compact spaces) was supervised by Karl Stein. In 1965 Forster also completed his habilitation in Munich. After spending the academic year 1966–1967 at the Institute for Advanced Study[1] and the academic year 1967–1968 as a substitute professor at the University of Göttingen, he became a full professor at the University of Regensburg in 1968. In 1968–1969 he was a visiting professor at the University of Geneva. In 1975 he moved to the University of Münster. Since 1982 he has been a professor at the Mathematical Institute of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Even after his retirement in summer 2005, he still regularly offers lectures for advanced students.
Forster, O. (1971). "Topologische Methoden in der Theorie Steinscher Räume". Actes du Congrès international des mathématiciens, 1–10 Septembre 1970, Nice. Vol.2. pp.613–618.
Husemöller, Dale (2004). "Appendix II: Elliptic Curves in Algorithmic Number Theory and Cryptography, pp. 413–424; Appendix III: Elliptic Curves and Topological Modular Forms, pp. 425–444, by Otto Forster". Elliptic Curves(PDF) (2nded.). Springer Science & Business Media. pp.417–444. ISBN978-0-387-95490-5; with appendices by Otto Forster, Stefan Theisen, and Ruth Lawrence{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
