Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts

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civil order order of merit

The Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts is a prestigious German honor awarded to outstanding figures in the fields of science and the arts.

Aliases (5)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	civil order → order of merit →
alsoKnownAs	Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts → Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste →
awardFor	outstanding achievements in science → outstanding achievements in the arts →
awardingBody	Federal Republic of Germany →
country	Germany →
eligibility	German recipients → civilian → foreign recipients →
field	arts → humanities → science →
foundedBy	King Frederick William IV of Prussia →
grade	single class →
hasNotableRecipient	Albert Einstein → Erwin Schrödinger → Hannah Arendt → Henry Moore → Igor Stravinsky → Karl Jaspers → Karl Popper → Konrad Lorenz → Max Planck → Mies van der Rohe → Niels Bohr → Paul Hindemith → Richard Strauss → Theodor W. Adorno → Thomas Mann → W. H. Auden → Werner Heisenberg →
headOfOrder	President of Germany →
inception	1842 →
insigniaColor	blue enamel →
insigniaMaterial	gold →
insigniaShape	Maltese cross →
insigniaType	neck decoration →
languageOfName	French →
motto	Pour le Mérite →
mottoLanguage	French →
partOf	Order Pour le Mérite →
predecessor	military class of the Pour le Mérite →
selectionBy	President of Germany → chapter of the order →
status	currently awarded →
type	civil class of the Pour le Mérite →

Referenced by (35)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Emil Adolf von Behring → Emil Adolf von Behring → Emil Theodor Kocher ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Eugene Wigner ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → George Bancroft ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Golo Mann ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Hans Bethe ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Hermann von Helmholtz ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → James Franck ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Karl Benz ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Karl Popper ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Karl Popper ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Leopold von Ranke ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Max Planck ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Max von Laue ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Otto Hahn ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Robert Koch ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Robert Koch ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Rudolf Clausius ("Order of Merit for Science and Art (Prussia)") → Rudolf Virchow ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Sven Hedin ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Theodor Heuss ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Theodor Mommsen ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Walther Nernst ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Werner Heisenberg ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") → Werner von Siemens ("Order of Merit for Science and the Arts (Pour le Mérite)") → Wilhelm Röntgen ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") →	awardReceived
Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts ("Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste") → Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") →	alsoKnownAs
Pour le Mérite ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") →	hasCivilClassSuccessor
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard →	memberOf
Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts ("Order Pour le Mérite") →	partOf
Blue Max ("Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts") →	successor