The royal Academy of sciences and the letters of Berlin , in the beginning Company of sciences , was founded the March 18th 1700.

The first life president of the Academy of Berlin will be Leibniz. This body whose principal members were or of people of the Refuge or the French, will be a “provincial” Academy compared to that of Paris for the very European intellectual world of the 18th century.

Frederic II of Prussia will make of it the center of the Aufklärung , version German of the French lights. Several French in momentary difficulties because of their writings or of their thought will find themselves there, of which Alphonse Of Flat-bottom the, Voltaire and Maupertuis (which will chair it) starting from 1745.

The death of Sophie-Charlotte and the war of succession of Spain delayed until in 1710 the beginning of work of the Academy but, in 1744, the Academy “was renewed”. It was divided into four classes: physics or experimental philosophy, mathematics, speculative philosophy, the humanities or philology. Each class met once per week; the academicians could take share with work of all the sections.

In 1746, Maupertuis and Formey were charged, one of the presidency, the other of the perpetual secretariat of the learned company. Frederic II accepted the title and fills the duties of a “guard of the Academy”; he prescribed the use of the French language substituted for Latin, and the payment, agreement with the opinions of the majority of the academicians in particular, had that the most perfect independence of the doctrines would be tolerated out of religious matter.

After the death of Maupertuis, the king directed the Academy with the assistance of of Alembert which subjected to him, of Paris, the councils of a judicious and not involved spirit.

Famous members

Jacques Abbadie ~ of Alembert ~ Charles Ancillon ~ Jacques Basnage ~ Isaac de Beausobre ~ Bitaubé ~ Boyer d' Argens ~ Chauvinistic ~ Denis Diderot ~ Albert Einstein ~ Leonhard Euler ~ Formey ~ Montesquieu ~ Kant ~ Johann Heinrich Lambert ~ Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ~ Hermann von Helmholtz ~ Croze ~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ~ Maupertuis ~ max Planck ~ Friedrich Schleiermacher ~ Voltaire

Recasting

Recently refondée by the embassy of France in Germany, the June 29th 2006, curiously claiming spirit of Voltaire, nearly three hundred years after… This time, however, the goal is not to shelter defectors of France, but to support the dialog with the German culture well.

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