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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All labels observed (15)

Label	Occurrences
Prussian Academy of Sciences canonical	131
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences	7
Königlich Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin	3
Berlin Academy of Sciences	2
Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften	2
Academy of Sciences at Berlin	1
Academy of Sciences in Berlin	1
Friedrich Wilhelm Institute	1
German Academy of Sciences at Berlin	1
Kurfürstlich Brandenburgische Societät der Wissenschaften	1
Königlich Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften	1
Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften	1
Prussian Academy of Arts	1
Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin	1
Republic of Letters and Berlin Academy	1

Statements (82)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academy of sciences ⓘ learned society ⓘ research institution ⓘ
affiliation	Prussia ⓘ surface form: Prussian state Prussia ⓘ surface form: Royal Prussian government
buildingUsed	Academy building on Unter den Linden ⓘ
country	Germany ⓘ Prussia ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ surface form: 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	Prussian Academy of Sciences self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 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	Prussian Academy of Sciences self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Königlich Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften Prussian Academy of Sciences self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ Prussian Academy of Sciences self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
timePeriod	18th century ⓘ 19th century ⓘ early 20th century ⓘ

Referenced by (155)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Albert Einstein → employer → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Adelbert von Chamisso → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Republic of Letters → hasKeyConcept → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

this entity surface form: Republic of Letters and Berlin Academy

Prussian Academy of Sciences → originalName → Prussian Academy of Sciences self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kurfürstlich Brandenburgische Societät der Wissenschaften

Prussian Academy of Sciences → renamedAs → Prussian Academy of Sciences self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Königlich Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Prussian Academy of Sciences → renamedAs → Prussian Academy of Sciences self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Prussian Academy of Sciences → successor → Prussian Academy of Sciences self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: German Academy of Sciences at Berlin

Alexander von Humboldt → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

David Hilbert → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Leonhard Euler → employer → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

this entity surface form: Berlin Academy of Sciences

Leonhard Euler → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Karl Schwarzschild → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Max Born → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Hermann von Helmholtz → educatedAt → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

this entity surface form: Friedrich Wilhelm Institute

Hermann von Helmholtz → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Peter Behrens → employer → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

this entity surface form: Prussian Academy of Arts

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Gustav Kirchhoff → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Emil du Bois-Reymond → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Helmholtz Medal → associatedWith → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Leopold Kronecker → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Frederick I of Prussia → patronOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

this entity surface form: Academy of Sciences in Berlin

Heinrich Hertz → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Karl Weierstrass → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Hermann Weyl → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Constantin Carathéodory → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Sophus Lie → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities → continues → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities → hasPredecessor → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Friedrich August Wolf → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Joseph-Louis Lagrange → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

this entity surface form: Berlin Academy of Sciences

Max Planck → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Georges Cuvier → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie → authorAffiliationAtTime → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Leopold von Ranke → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Eduard Meyer → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Emil Fischer → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Walther Nernst → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Max von Laue → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Otto Hahn → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Arnold Sommerfeld → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Richard Courant → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Über die Anzahl der Primzahlen unter einer gegebenen Grösse → institutionalContext → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

this entity surface form: Königlich Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin

Johann Heinrich Lambert → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Julius Plücker → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Albrecht von Haller → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

Rudolf Clausius → memberOf → Prussian Academy of Sciences ⓘ

this entity surface form: Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences