Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities

It has the task of promoting research under its own auspices and in collaboration with academics in and outside Germany.

The Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Royal Society of Sciences) was founded in 1751 by King George II of Great Britain, who was also Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (House of Hanover), the German state in which Göttingen was located.

The first president was the Swiss natural historian and poet Albrecht von Haller.

Among the learned societies in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Göttingen academy is the second-oldest after the Halle-based Leopoldina (1652).

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The building of the Academy on the Theaterstraße ( Theatre street ) in Göttingen