Prussian Academy of Sciences

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academy of sciences learned society research institution

The Prussian Academy of Sciences was a prestigious Berlin-based learned society and research institution that became one of Europe’s leading centers for scientific and philosophical scholarship in the 18th to early 20th centuries.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academy of sciences → learned society → research institution →
affiliation	Prussian state → Royal Prussian government →
buildingUsed	Academy building on Unter den Linden →
country	Germany → Kingdom of Prussia →
dissolutionCause	abolition of the State of Prussia after World War II →
dissolved	1945 →
fieldOfWork	astronomy → chemistry → classical studies → history → humanities → mathematics → natural sciences → philology → philosophy → physics →
foundedBy	Frederick I of Prussia → Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz →
headquartersLocation	Berlin →
inception	11 July 1700 → 1700 →
knownFor	Enlightenment-era scholarship → critical editions of classical and historical texts → leading center of philosophical scholarship in Europe → leading center of scientific research in Europe → support of mathematics → support of theoretical physics →
languageOfWork	German → Latin →
locatedIn	Berlin → Brandenburg Gate area → Unter den Linden →
notableMember	Albert Einstein → Alexander von Humboldt → David Hilbert → Eduard Meyer → Emil du Bois-Reymond → Ernst Haeckel → Felix Klein → Friedrich August Wolf → Friedrich Schleiermacher → Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel → Gustav Kirchhoff → Hermann Minkowski → Hermann von Helmholtz → Immanuel Kant → Johann Gottfried Herder → Johann Gottlieb Fichte → Johann Sebastian Bach → Karl Weierstrass → Leonhard Euler → Leopold Kronecker → Max Planck → Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis → Rudolf Virchow → Theodor Mommsen → Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff → Wilhelm von Humboldt →
originalLanguage	German →
originalName	Kurfürstlich Brandenburgische Societät der Wissenschaften →
patron	Frederick I of Prussia → Frederick II of Prussia → Frederick William I of Prussia →
regionServed	Europe → German-speaking Europe → Prussia →
renamedAs	Königlich Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften → Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften →
significantEvent	Nazification and state control during the Third Reich → expansion of research institutes in the 19th century → formal dissolution after World War II → integration into the Prussian state administration in the 18th century → reorganization under Frederick the Great in 1744 →
successor	Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities → German Academy of Sciences at Berlin →
timePeriod	18th century → 19th century → early 20th century →

Referenced by (54)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Adelbert von Chamisso → Albrecht von Haller → Alexander von Humboldt → Arnold Sommerfeld → Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi → Constantin Carathéodory → David Hilbert → Eduard Meyer → Emil Fischer → Emil du Bois-Reymond → Erhard Schmidt → Friedrich August Wolf → Georges Cuvier → Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz → Gustav Kirchhoff → Heike Kamerlingh Onnes → Heinrich Hertz → Hermann Weyl → Hermann von Helmholtz → Johann Heinrich Lambert → Joseph-Louis Lagrange ("Berlin Academy of Sciences") → Julius Plücker → Karl Schwarzschild → Karl Schwarzschild → Karl Weierstrass → Leonhard Euler → Leopold Kronecker → Leopold von Ranke → Max Born → Max Planck → Max von Laue → Otto Hahn → Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis → Richard Courant → Rudolf Clausius ("Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences") → Sophus Lie → Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff → Walther Nernst → Werner von Siemens →	memberOf
Albert Einstein → Leonhard Euler ("Berlin Academy of Sciences") → Peter Behrens ("Prussian Academy of Arts") →	employer
Prussian Academy of Sciences ("Königlich Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften") → Prussian Academy of Sciences ("Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften") →	renamedAs
Helmholtz Medal →	associatedWith
Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie →	authorAffiliationAtTime
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities →	continues
Hermann von Helmholtz ("Friedrich Wilhelm Institute") →	educatedAt
Republic of Letters ("Republic of Letters and Berlin Academy") →	hasKeyConcept
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities →	hasPredecessor
Über die Anzahl der Primzahlen unter einer gegebenen Grösse ("Königlich Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin") →	institutionalContext
Prussian Academy of Sciences ("Kurfürstlich Brandenburgische Societät der Wissenschaften") →	originalName
Frederick I of Prussia ("Academy of Sciences in Berlin") →	patronOf
Prussian Academy of Sciences ("German Academy of Sciences at Berlin") →	successor