Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences

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Seal of the Society from 1784
Illustration from around 1800

The Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences ( Královská česká společnost nauk ) was the first learned society in Bohemia. It was founded in 1784 and existed until 1952 when it was incorporated into the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences .

history

Around 1770 an informal group of scientists, called the Učená společnost ( learned society ), formed in Prague around Ignaz von Born . She published the weekly magazine Gelehre Nachrichten or Prager Gelehre Nachrichten (1771–72), the authors of which published mostly in German. 1775 presented itself in Prague with the treatises of a private company in Bohemia for the inclusion of mathematics, patriotic history and natural history (1775–84), the subsequent "Bohemian learned private company".

It was a loose association that was founded in 1784 with the approval of Emperor Joseph II as the “Bohemian Society of Sciences” and was given fixed organizational structures. In 1790, Leopold II approved the renaming to the “Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences”, which celebrated its first jubilee on September 14, 1836. The society kept this name until 1952, when it merged with the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences .

The Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences was initially divided into the physical, mathematical and historical classes. With the amendment of the statutes of 1791 there was a restructuring on the physical-mathematical and the national-historical class.

Members

Well-known personalities of the society included Karel Rafael Ungar , Josef Dobrovský , Franz Josef von Gerstner , Antonín Strnad , František Palacký and Jan Evangelista Purkyně .

See also category: Member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences

literature

  • Jana Šlechtová: Počátky Učené společnosti a její vztah ke Klementinu . In: Bulletin plus. 3/2003, online at: www.nkp.cz , Czech, accessed on September 19, 2010.
  • Josef Petráň: Královská česká společnost nauk . In: Vesmír. 1995/11, online at: www.vesmir.cz , Czech, accessed September 19, 2010.
  • Bohemian scholar private company. online at: scholarly-societies.org , with an overview of the publications, in English, accessed on January 24, 2016.
  • Conrad Grau: Famous Science Academies . Edition Leipzig, 1988, ISBN 3-361-00147-1 .

Web links

Wikisource: Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lectures given at the public meeting of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences at their first jubilee on September 14, 1836 . Gottlieb Haase Sons, Prague 1837