Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

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Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
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founding 1992
Sponsorship autonomous
place Berlin and Potsdam , Germany
president Martin Grötschel
Employee about 300
Website www.bbaw.de

The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences ( BBAW for short ) is an institution for the promotion of science with headquarters in Berlin and Potsdam , which was founded in 1992 by contract between the states of Berlin and Brandenburg . It is the traditional successor to the Prussian Academy of Sciences , whose members included the Brothers Grimm , Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt , Lise Meitner , Theodor Mommsen , Albert Einstein and Max Planck .

Names

The Berlin Academy of Sciences has been called since:

  • July 11, 1700: Electoral Brandenburg Society of Sciences
  • January 18, 1701, Kingdom of Prussia : Royal Prussian Society of Sciences
  • January 24, 1744: Royal Academy of Sciences, merged with the Société littéraire founded in 1743
  • May 10, 1746: Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres
  • January 24, 1812: Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin (in use since the turn of the 19th century)
  • November 28, 1918, November Revolution : Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • December 20, 1945, four-power status : Academy of Sciences in Berlin
  • July 1, 1946: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin
  • October 7, 1972: Academy of Sciences of the GDR
  • March 23, 1987 to December 31, 1990, German reunification : Academy of Sciences in Berlin (West)
  • August 1, 1992: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (formerly Prussian Academy of Sciences)

history

Friedrich I. , founder of the Academy of Sciences

The academy leads its tradition on in 1700 by Elector Friedrich III. of Brandenburg, the later King Friedrich I in Prussia, founded the Electoral Brandenburg Society of Sciences . It achieved world fame as the Prussian Academy of Sciences . On July 1, 1946, it was reopened by the Soviet military administration in Germany as the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in the former building of the Prussian State Bank at Jägerstrasse 21-23.

In 1972 it was renamed the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , which functioned both as a learned society and, comparable for example to the Max Planck Society , as the supporting organization of a research community of non-university research institutes. In the course of the reunification of Germany , the GDR Academy was dissolved at the end of 1991 and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) was subsequently reconstituted in accordance with the State Treaty of the Federal States of Berlin and Brandenburg of May 21, 1992 as a legal body under public law with the Right of self-government. In 1993 it began its work under the leadership of the founding president Hubert Markl . The Academy President has been Martin Grötschel since 2015 . The institution has its headquarters in Berlin at Jägerstrasse 22–23, a former bank building that until 1945 housed the Prussian Sea Trade .

79 Nobel Prize winners shape the history of the Academy and its predecessors. Today, with around 200 elected members, it is a scientific association that transcends specialist and national borders and bears special responsibility for the science location in the capital region. In interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary working groups, an innovative form of work in the German academy landscape, the academy members deal with questions about the future of our society as well as with work on the development of cultural heritage. With around 300 employees, the academy is the largest non-university research institution in Berlin-Brandenburg. Internationally, it is contractually networked with around 20 academies on four continents.

Together with the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, she founded the Young Academy , an internationally unique form of promoting excellent young talent. Since 2008, under the leadership of the Leopoldina, the BBAW has been performing tasks of the National Academy with acatech ( German Academy of Science and Engineering) and the other academies affiliated with it in the Union of German Academies of Sciences , particularly in the area of ​​policy advice. In 2010 the Global Young Academy was founded with the support of the BBAW, which sees itself as an academy for young scientists from all over the world. The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) was founded on the initiative of the Young Academy at the BBAW in 2013 and serves the exchange of scientists with the Arab world.

Locations

Location Jägerstrasse 22/23 (former Prussian State Bank) in Berlin-Mitte

The house at Jägerstrasse 22/23 is the oldest preserved building on the edge of Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt . It was built in the years 1901–1903 on behalf of the Seehandlungsgesellschaft and later the Prussian State Bank according to plans and under the direction of the architect Paul Kieschke . The three-storey building in the neo-baroque style on Jägerstrasse is equipped with a sandstone facade . The jewelry works on the house were reduced in 1936–1940. Inside there were changes during these years, as a four-story administration building was added (number 23). This has a shell limestone cladding and was designed by Hubert Lütcke .
In the large bank room, on the occasion of the change of use for the academy (after the Second World War), the previous walls and columns were clad. This was followed by jewelry in the contemporary understanding, for example a stone relief by Jürgen Karnopp in 1984 .

Other locations are the former Prussian State Library Unter den Linden 8 in Berlin-Mitte and the former house Stichnote Am Neuen Markt 8 in Potsdam.

  • Location Unter den Linden 8 in Berlin-Mitte (former Prussian State Library)

  • Entrance to the Academy of Sciences at the Unter den Linden State Library

  • Location Am Neuen Markt 8 in Potsdam (former house key note)

activities

Memorial plaque on the house at Markgrafenstrasse 38 in Berlin-Mitte

Academy projects

24 academy projects and a large number of third-party funded projects make the academy the largest non-university research institution with a humanities profile in the region. Her projects include large German and foreign-language dictionaries, the edition of texts and sources from antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times, the works of "classics" from various fields of science and documentation.

Interdisciplinary working groups / initiatives / third-party funded projects

In interdisciplinary working groups and initiatives - a form of work that is innovative in the German academy landscape - academy members deal with questions of the future of our society together with external colleagues and young academics. With the results presented as research reports, memoranda and recommendations and their public discussion, the Academy makes an active contribution to political and social advice.

  • Academy and school
  • August Wilhelm Iffland's dramaturgical and administrative archive (1796–1814). Indexing and edition (third-party funded project)
  • Correspondence between Alois Hirt in the period 1787–1837 (third-party funded project)
  • German text archive (completed)
  • Eutena (completed)
  • Excellence Initiative
  • Genetic Engineering Report (Interdisciplinary Working Group): The first 580-page genetic engineering report - Analysis of a High Technology in Germany (as a book in Elsevier-Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-8274-1675-2 ) was published at the beginning of September 2005 and is to be updated at irregular intervals . It provides a very detailed analysis of all the major areas of genetic engineering, in each case combined with proposals for action for government, industry and the public.
  • Society - Water - Technology (completed)
  • Historic gardens in a changing climate
  • International justice and institutional responsibility
  • Annual theme 2017/2018 "Language"
  • Jean Paul Edition (third-party funded project)
  • Communication between science, the public and the media (phase 2): Significance, opportunities and risks of social media (completed)
  • Normativity - Objectivity - Action (completed) (initiative)
  • Paleocoran (third-party funded project)
  • Personal data repository (PDR), ( Wiki ) (completed) (third-party funded project)
  • "Systemic risks as prototypes of dynamic structure formation" (initiative)
  • TELOTA - The electronic life of the Academy (digitized version )
  • Quote and Paraphrase (completed)

Regular events

edoc server of the academy's library

The BBAW has an electronic platform, the edoc server, for electronic long-term archiving of publications by employees and for publications from academy projects. The server is operated by the academy's library.

Young Academy / Global Young Academy / Arab-German Young Academy

Together with the Leopoldina , the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences founded the Young Academy in June 2000 . The number of members is limited to a maximum of 50. Outstanding representatives from the young academics with a doctorate are elected as members for five years. The main task of the Junge Akademie is to maintain the interdisciplinary scientific discourse among outstanding young scientists and to promote initiatives at the interfaces between science and society.

In 2010 the Global Young Academy was founded with the support of the BBAW, which sees itself as an academy for young scientists from all over the world. The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) was founded on the initiative of the Young Academy at the BBAW in 2013 and serves the exchange of scientists with the Arab world.

Prizes and awards

Currently:

  • Honorary membership of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  • Helmholtz Medal
  • Leibniz Medal
  • Academy Award of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  • Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (sponsored by the Commerzbank Foundation)
  • Eva and Klaus Grohe Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
  • Prize from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (donated by the Monika Kutzner Foundation to promote cancer research)
  • Technological award from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (donated by Biotronik , first awarded in 2010)
  • Walter de Gruyter Prize of the Academy for outstanding scientific achievements in a subject area by Walter de Gruyter (publisher) , preferably the humanities
  • Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (donated by the Peregrinus Foundation Rudolf Meimberg )
  • Sigrid and Heinz Hannse Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences for special achievements in the field of gender medicine

Earlier:

  • Academic scholarship from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (last time in 2006)
  • Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (donated by Verlag de Gruyter) (last time 2006)
  • Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (sponsored by the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation) (last time 2005)
  • Kant Medal (awarded since 2010) for personalities who have made outstanding contributions to the promotion of education and science in an international context

Indirectly through the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, its substructure, the interdisciplinary research network Digital Humanities in Berlin (if | DH | b), has been awarding the Berlin Digital Humanities Prize since 2015 .

See also

Publications

Series and magazines

  • Yearbook . Akademie-Verlag (initially) / De Gruyter, Berlin 1994 ff., ISSN  0946-4638 .
  • Research reports. Interdisciplinary working groups, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. 1995 ff., DNB 018893376 .
  • From 1998 to 2015 the BBAW published the quarterly magazine Gegenworte. Tackle out for the dispute about knowledge . which was founded by the then President Dieter Simon.
  • Debate. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin 2004 ff.
  • The academy on Gendarmenmarkt . 2007-2015. Continued by: Annual magazine of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Berlin [2015] ff., Authorized ISSN  2511-7572 .
  • The President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the interdisciplinary working group Excellence Initiative of the BBAW (Ed.): Science Policy in Dialog. A series of publications by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Berlin 2012 ff.

Individual publications

  • Christoph Markschies , Ernst Osterkamp (ed.): Vademecum of the means of inspiration. [As part of the 2011/2012 annual theme “Artifacts - Knowledge is Art, Art is Knowledge”.] Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1231-9 .
  • Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher : Lectures on hermeneutics and criticism. Critical Complete Edition, 2. Dept., Volume 4. Edited by Wolfgang Virmond. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-025244-6 .
  • The President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences Günter Stock (Ed.): Erbe und Zukunft / Heritage and the Future. Academy projects, interdisciplinary working groups and research projects of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Editor: Andreas Schmidt, translation: Orla Mulholland. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-939818-33-5 .
  • The President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Expelled for racist reasons: the Academy of Sciences 1933–1945. Exhibition as part of the Berlin theme year 2013 “Destroyed Diversity. Berlin 1933 - 1938 - 1945 ”. [Catalog; Research, conception, text: Peter Nötzoldt. Red .: Andreas Schmidt.] Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-939818-48-9 .
  • Constanze Breuer, Bärbel Holtz , Paul Kahl (eds.): The musealization of the nation. A cultural-political model of the 19th century. [Lectures of the conference “Culture - Politics - Museum. Musealization of the monarchy, (father) country and nation in the German-speaking cultural area of ​​the 19th century ”(2013).] De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin / Boston [2015], ISBN 978-3-11-036242-8 . (digitized extracts) .
  • Stephan Leibfried, Christoph Markschies, Ernst Osterkamp, ​​Günter Stock (eds.): Berlin's wild energies. Portraits from the history of the Leibniz Science Academy. de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-037598-5 .

Web links

Commons : Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie/akademiegeschichte
  2. ↑ The Berlin Academy and its Management in Three Centuries (BBAW)
  3. ↑ http://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie
  4. ↑ a b Home. In: Global Young Academy. Retrieved June 7, 2016 .
  5. ^ A b Arab-German Young Academy. In: www.agya.info. Retrieved June 7, 2016 .
  6. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Berlin. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-422-03111-1 , p. 123.
  7. ↑ Model of the wall relief in the Archives of Brandenburg Science, collection number P / BON-0693 , retrieved on October 11, 2017.
  8. ↑ admin: Home - Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In: www.bbaw.de. Retrieved June 7, 2016 .
  9. ↑ admin: Overview - Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In: www.bbaw.de. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Overview - Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In: www.bbaw.de. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
  11. ↑ bbawredakteur: Index - Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In: www.bbaw.de. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
  12. ↑ bbawredakteur: Index - Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In: www.bbaw.de. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
  13. ↑ bbawredakteur: Index - Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In: www.bbaw.de. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
  14. ↑ bbawredakteur: Index - Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In: www.bbaw.de. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
  15. ↑ BBAW: Personal Data Repository , a DFG project to establish a digital infrastructure for scientific biographical information. ( Wiki ).
  16. ↑ See the server homepage at http://edoc.bbaw.de/
  17. ↑ See the homepage of the BBAW library at http://bibliothek.bbaw.de/
  18. ↑ First award of the Technological Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , press release in Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from February 18, 2010, accessed on February 22, 2010.
  19. ↑ First award of the Kant Medal to HRH Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud , in Information Service Wissenschaft dated June 2, 2010, accessed on June 4, 2010.
  20. ↑ Berlin Digital Humanities Prize 2015 awarded , BBAW / PM-12/2015 from June 16, 2015, accessed on June 23, 2015.
  21. ↑ See http://www.gegenworte.org/ see also entry of the journal in the German National Library under DNB 019227132

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