The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in German the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, is an independent public institution in Munich that appoints scholars whose research has contributed considerably to the increase of knowledge in their subject. The lawyer Johann Georg von Lori founded a Learned Society of Bavaria on 12 October 1758, and Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, founded the Academy itself on 28 March 1759, with Count Sigmund von Haimhausen as its first president. It began with a Class for History and a Class for Philosophy, and today its two classes are the Class for Philosophy and History and the Class for Mathematics and the Natural Sciences. Each class has up to 45 ordinary and 80 corresponding members, and its members have included Goethe, Max Planck, Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg. Its 37 commissions employ more than 450 people on long-term projects.
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is an independent public institution, located in Munich.
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Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Wikipedia)
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is an independent public institution, located in Munich.
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is an independent public institution, located in Munich.
View the SourceJohann Georg Dominicus von Linprun (Wikipedia)
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He was one of the co-founders of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
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He was one of the co-founders of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
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he was appointed member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
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