Price question
A price question (also a price assignment ) is a question whose correct answer a price is exposed to. The term is now more familiar from quiz shows and similar competitions where the answer is known to the questioner.
Instead, open price questions call for a more detailed answer to be submitted in writing. The submitted answers or the excellent answer are referred to as price script ( Latin scriptum praemio ornatum ). Occasionally, excellent work that was not awarded a prize on the basis of a prize question is also referred to as a prize font.
Prize tasks from academies
Above all, questions about prices from scientific institutions such as the Societas Jablonoviana are known . The Prussian Academy of Sciences put down 1744 regular competitions, which, among others, le Rond d'Alembert Jean , Johann Gottfried Herder (1770 and 1773) and Immanuel Kant were answered. By the beginning of the 20th century at the latest, the number of award questions in favor of other forms of scientific funding and communication decreased.
Examples
«Source est l'origine de l'inégalité parmi les hommes et si elle est autorisée par la loi naturelle? »
"What is the origin of inequality among men, and is it justified by natural law?"
Women were also allowed to take part in the prize questions, so Juliane Giovane answered the question: "What permanent means are there to lead people to good things without external violence?" (1785) and was subsequently accepted into the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Published price publications (selection)
- Prize writings, crowned and published by the Princely Jablonowskische Gesellschaft zu Leipzig (series of publications 1847–1943)
- Drey price papers to answer the question asked by the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen concerning insects harmful to the documents and books in archives and libraries (1775) urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10231753-4
literature
- Hans-Heinrich Müller : Academy and Economy in the 18th Century, Agricultural Economic Prize Tasks and Prize Papers of the Prussian Academy of Sciences; Try, tendencies and overview . Akad.-Verlag, 1975.
- Hans-Heinrich Müller: On problems of the development of the productive forces in agriculture of the 18th century and their reflection in the price publications of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . 1970 (habilitation)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Google Ngram Search for price text, price question and price request ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
