Royal Danish Academy of Sciences

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Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
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founding November 13, 1742
Sponsorship Private
place Copenhagen , Denmark
president Mogens Høgh Jensen
Website www.royalacademy.dk
Maximilian Hell : "Observatio transitus Veneris ante discum Solis", 1770

The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences ( Danish Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab , abbreviated KDVS or also Videnskabernes Selskab ; Latin Regia Academia Scientiarum Danica ) is a non-state academy in Denmark .

history

The academy was founded on November 13, 1742 by decree of Christian VI. Founded as “Collegium Antiquitatum” by Johan Ludvig von Holstein and Hans Gram . From 1745 to 1770 it was called “Kiøbenhavske Selskab af Laerdoms og Videnskabers Elskere” , from 1777 the academy was called “Kongelige Videnskabers Selskab” , from 1781 the current name “Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab” . The academy has around 250 national and 260 international members. In 2011 the Det Unge Akademi department was founded, which currently has 34 younger researchers as members.

The current president is Mogens Høgh Jensen .

President

  1. 1742–1763: Johan Ludvig von Holstein
  2. 1763-1770: Otto Thott
  3. 1776–1780: Henrik Hielmstierne
  4. 1780-1788: Bolle Willum Luxdorph
  5. 1788–1797: Andreas Peter Bernstorff
  6. 1797–1831: Ernst Heinrich Schimmelmann
  7. 1831–1838: Adam Wilhelm Hauch
  8. 1838–1848: Prince Christian Friedrich
  9. 1848–1860: Anders Sandøe Ørsted
  10. 1867–1886: Johan Nicolai Madvig
  11. 1888–1909: Julius Thomsen
  12. 1909–1927: Vilhelm Thomsen
  13. 1927-1933: Niels Erik Nørlund
  2. 1933–1934: Anders Bjørn Drachmann
  3. 1934–1938: Holger Pedersen
  4. 1938–1939: Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen
  5. 1939–1962: Niels Bohr
  6. 1962–1969: Johannes Pedersen
  7. 1969–1975: Bengt Strömgren
  8. 1975-1981: Poul Jørgen Riis
  9. 1981–1988: Jens Lindhard
  10. 1988-1994: Erik Dal
  11. 1994-1996: Henning Sørensen
  12. 1996-2003: Birger Munk Olsen
  13. 2004-2008: Tom Fennel
  14. 2008–2016: Kirsten Hastrup
  15. 2016–2020: Mogens Høgh Jensen

See also

literature

  • Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab: Historical Treatises of the Royal Society of Sciences in Copenhagen , Nabu Press 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DUA ( Danish ) DUA. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?pageId=3786842 Pedersen is named here as President of the Society in 1967. Retrieved November 13, 2017
  3. ↑ http://www.royalacademy.dk/da/Aktuelt/Ny-president Accessed November 13, 2017
  4. ↑ http://www.nbi.ku.dk/navnligt_navne/2016/mogens-hoegh-jensen-ny-praesident-for-videnskabernes-selskab/ Accessed on November 13, 2017

Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 23 "  N , 12 ° 34 ′ 25"  E