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3 unusual facts about Prussian Academy of Sciences


Academy of Berlin

Prussian Academy of Sciences, an academic academy established in Berlin in 1700

Anonymus Londinensis

Diels produced the first edition of the Greek text, which was published in 1893 by the Prussian Academy of Sciences as volume III, part 1, of Supplementum Aristotelicum.

Bjørn Helland-Hansen

He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Member of the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic (DDR).


Adolf Friedrich von Reinhard

He won first prize from the Prussian Academy of Sciences for La Système de Mr. Pope sur la perfection du monde comparé à celui de Mr. Leibniz (1755), a critique of the philosophy of Alexander Pope, Leibniz and Christian Wolff.

Heinrich Brunner

He became a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1884, and in 1886, after the death of Georg Waitz, undertook the supervision of the Leges section of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

Ignoramus et ignorabimus

Emil du Bois-Reymond used ignoramus et ignorabimus in discussing what he called seven "world riddles", in a famous 1880 speech before the Berlin Academy of Sciences.


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