| Period
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Name and dates of life
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Profession / Notes
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| 1759-1761
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Sigmund Ferdinand Count of Haimhausen (1708–1793)
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Cameralist , lawyer, civil servant, chairman of the Coin and Mining Board; involved in the boom in Bavarian mining in the 18th century, establishment of the first Bavarian brick kiln and the Nymphenburg porcelain manufacture ; Founding President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
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| 1761-1762
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Joseph Franz Maria Ignaz Count of Seinsheim (1707–1787)
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Obersthofmeister , First Minister of State and Conference ; one of the decisive advocates of founding an academy at the electoral court; honorary member since 1759.
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Painter: George Desmarées
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| 1762-1768
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Max Emanuel Count von Törring-Jettenbach (1715–1773)
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Privy Councilor, Court Chamber President and Conference Minister; honorary member since 1759.
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| 1768-1769
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Johann Joseph Graf von Baumgarten (1713–1772)
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Jurist; Councilor ; Chamberlain and Conference Minister, Bavarian representative at the coronation of the emperor in Frankfurt in 1763, elevated to the rank of imperial count by Charles VII ; honorary member since 1761
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| 1769-1771
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Joseph Franz Maria Graf von Seinsheim (1707–1787)
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Second term
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so
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| 1771-1779
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Sigmund Ferdinand Count of Haimhausen (1708–1793)
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Second term
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so
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| 1779-1787
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Joseph Franz Maria Graf von Seinsheim (1707–1787)
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Third term
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so
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| 1787-1793
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Sigmund Ferdinand Count of Haimhausen (1708–1793)
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Third term
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so
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| 1793-1807
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Count Anton von Törring-Seefeld (1725–1812)
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Privy Councilor , Chamberlain and Chief Chamberlain (President of the Court Chamber and Chief Chamberlain), Vice President 1780–1793
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Painter: Josef Georg Edlinger
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| 1807-1812
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Friedrich Heinrich von Jacobi (1743–1819)
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Philosopher, lawyer, economic theorist, businessman and writer, privy councilor; Professor of Philosophy in Munich
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Painter: Johann Peter von Langer
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| 1812-1827
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unoccupied
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represented (decomposed) by the Secretary General:
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| 1827-1842
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Schelling (1775-1854)
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Philosopher; Main exponent of the philosophy of German idealism ; Professor in Jena and Munich
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Painter: Joseph Karl Stieler
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| 1842-1848
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Maximilian Freiherr von Freyberg-Eisenberg (1789-1851)
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Historian, director of the Reichsarchiv
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| 1848-1859
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Friedrich Wilhelm von Thiersch (1784–1860)
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Classical philologist; "Teacher of Bavaria"; Educational reformer and philhellene; Professor in Munich; Secretary of the philosophical-philological class 1827–1848
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| 1859-1873
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Justus Freiherr von Liebig (1803–1873)
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Chemist and pharmacologist; Professor in Giessen and Munich, honorary citizen of Munich; Basic researcher in several areas of chemistry, including the development of fertilizers that are still in use today
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| 1873-1890
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Ignaz von Döllinger (1799–1890)
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Liberal Catholic theologian and church historian; Professor and Rector of Munich University; Pioneer of ecumenism ; Member of the Görres group and the Frankfurt National Assembly
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| 1890-1899
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Max von Pettenkofer (1818–1901)
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Chemist and hygienist ; Professor and Rector at Munich University; first German professor for hygiene; Honorary citizen of the city of Munich; Inventor of the stock cube
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| 1899-1904
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Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel (1839–1904)
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Geologist, Paleontologist and Privy Councilor; Professor in Karlsruhe and Munich; contributed significantly to the development of paleontology as an independent university discipline; Director of the Natural History Museum in Munich ; Research trip took him to Libya
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| 1904-1915
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Karl Theodor Ritter von Heigel (1842–1915)
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Historian; Professor in Munich; Bavarian State Archivist and Royal Privy Council; Honorary citizen of the city of Munich
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| 1915-1918
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Otto Crusius (1857-1918)
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Classical philologist; Professor in Tübingen, Heidelberg and Munich; Editor of the Philologus and the works of Nietzsche
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| 1919-1923
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Hugo Ritter von Seeliger (1849–1924)
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Astronomer; Director of the Gotha Observatory ; Professor in Munich and Director of the Bogenhausen Observatory ; Privy Councilor; Chairman of the Astronomical Society ; Co-founder of stellar statistics
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| 1924-1927
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Max von Gruber (1853–1927)
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Biologist and eugenicist ; one of the founders of modern hygiene; Head of the Graz, Vienna and Munich Hygiene Institute; Co-discoverer of agglutination and founder of serology ; Chairman of the German Society for Racial Hygiene ; Co-founder of the German Fatherland Party and the German National People's Party in Bavaria
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| 1927-1930
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Eduard Schwartz (1858–1940)
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Classical philologist; Professor in Rostock, Giessen, Strasbourg, Göttingen, Freiburg and Munich; Member of the academies in Berlin, Heidelberg, Munich, Vienna, Strasbourg, Petersburg, Copenhagen, Budapest and Stockholm
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| 1930-1932
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Karl Ritter von Goebel (1855–1932)
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Botanist; Professor in Strasbourg, Rostock, Marburg and Munich; laid out the Botanical Gardens of Rostock and Munich (Nymphenburg); Research trips to Ceylon, Java, Venezuela and British Guiana
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| 1932-1935
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Leopold Wenger (1874–1953)
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Legal historian; Professor in Graz, Vienna, Heidelberg and Munich; Founded the seminar for papyrus research in Munich , thereby combining legal history with classical philology
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| 1936-1944
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Karl Alexander von Müller (1882–1964)
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Historian; Full Professor of Bavarian State History and General History in Munich; Editor of the historical journal ; Mediator between an older and younger, National Socialist generation of historians; Honorary member of the " Reich Institute for the History of New Germany "; Forced retirement after the end of the war due to involvement in the Nazi regime
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| 1944-1945
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Mariano San Nicolò (1887–1955)
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Italian legal historian and papyrologist; Professor and Rector at the University of Prague and Munich; Expert in Roman law and the legal history of the Middle East; Honorary doctorate in Mainz; Member of the academies in Mainz, Vienna, Munich, Prague and Oslo
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| 1946-1950
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Walther Meißner (1882–1974)
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Experimental physicist; Oberregierungsrat; Co-discoverer of the Meißner-Ochsenfeld effect ; Professor in Munich; Co-founder and longtime head of the commission for low temperature research at the academy; Honorary doctorate in Mainz and the TU Berlin; Bearer of the Great Cross of Merit of the FRG and the Bavarian Order of Merit
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| 1950-1952
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Heinrich Mitteis (1889–1952)
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Legal historian; Professor in Cologne, Heidelberg, Munich, Vienna, Rostock, Berlin and Zurich; Opponent of National Socialism; one of the most important legal historians of the century, he linked legal history, political history and intellectual history
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| 1952-1956
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Richard Wagner (1893-1970)
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Physiologist; Professor in Graz, Erlangen, Breslau, Innsbruck and Munich; Research on regulating processes in the organism and on the physiology of the circulatory system
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| 1956-1964
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Friedrich Baethgen (1890–1972)
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Medieval historian; Professor in Heidelberg, Vienna, Königsberg and Munich; second secretary of the German Historical Institute in Rome ; President of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica
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| 1964-1970
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Robert Sauer (1898–1970)
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Mathematician; Professor in Aachen, Karlsruhe, Weil am Rhein, St. Louis in Alsace and Munich (there rector and several times prorector); Basic researcher in the field of gas dynamics and differential geometry ; Politician, Vice President of the Bavarian Senate
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| 1970-1976
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Hans Raupach (1903-1997)
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Economist, lawyer and Eastern European researcher; Professor in Halle, Munich, Braunschweig, Wilhelmshaven (there also rector); Research on the economy and society of the Soviet Union
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| 1977-1979
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Walter Rollwagen (1909–1993)
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Experimental physicist; Professor in Munich, acting head of the Bogenhausen observatory
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| 1980-1985
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Herbert Franke (1914-2011)
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Sinologist ; Chairman of the German Oriental Society ; Vice President of the German Society for East Asian Studies ; Vice President of the German Research Foundation ; Bearer of the Bavarian Order of Merit
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| 1986-1991
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Arnulf Schlüter (1922–2011)
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Astrophysicist; Pioneer of cosmic electrodynamics and plasma physics; Founding member and director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics ; Professor in Munich; significantly involved in setting up the first nuclear fusion experiments in Germany; Member of the Leopoldina, Vienna and Munich academies
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| 1992-1997
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Horst Fuhrmann (1926–2011)
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Medieval historian; Professor in Tübingen and Regensburg; President of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica; Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Munich Academy
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| 1998-2005
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Heinrich Nöth (1928–2015)
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Chemist; Professor in Marburg, Munich and Mexico; Member of the academies of Munich, Göttingen, Austria, Mexico, Russia, Leopoldina and Academia Europaea; President of the Society of German Chemists ; is considered the "master of boron chemistry"
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| 2006-2010
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Dietmar Willoweit (* 1936)
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Legal scholar and legal historian; Professor in Berlin, Tübingen and Würzburg; is committed to interdisciplinary research
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| 2011-2016
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Karl Heinz Hoffmann (* 1939)
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Mathematician; Professor at the Technical University of Munich ; 1998/1999 President of the German Mathematicians Association ; Leibniz Prize Winner
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| since 2017
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Thomas O. Höllmann (* 1952)
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Sinologist and ethnologist; Professor at the LMU Munich
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