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2 unusual facts about learned society


European Society for Neurochemistry

The European Society for Neurochemistry (ESN) is a professional society for neurochemists and neuroscientists from Europe whose research concerns the role and interactions of small molecules in the function, and pathology of the nervous system.

Learned society

Members of these online academic communities, grouped by areas of interests, use for their communication shared and dedicated listservs (for example JISCMail), social networking services (like Facebook, Linkedin) and academic oriented social networks (like Mendeley, Academia.edu).


Joseph von Petrasch

He founded in 1746 the Olomouc-based Societas incognitorum, the first Enlightenment-inspired learned society in the Hapsburg territories.

Neurootological and Equilibriometric Society

The Neurootological and Equilibriometric Society is a learned society that was founded in 1974 and has its seat in Bad Kissingen (Germany).

Søren Kierkegaard Society

The Søren Kierkegaard Society (U.S.A.) is a philosophical society whose purpose is to promote the study of the philosophy and theology of Søren Kierkegaard in the United States.


see also

Austrian Academy of Sciences

The Academy is also a learned society, and its past members have included Christian Doppler, Theodor Billroth, Anton Eiselsberg, Eduard Suess, Ludwig Boltzmann, Paul Kretschmer, Hans Horst Meyer, Roland Scholl, and the Nobel Prize winners Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Victor Hess, Erwin Schrödinger and Konrad Lorenz.

International Thomas Merton Society

The International Thomas Merton Society, founded in 1987, is a learned society which studies the works of Thomas Merton.