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The motto “Fecundat et ornat” (it fertilizes and adorns) was chosen when the
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities was founded by the ruler of
the state, King George II of Great Britain, Elector of Hanover, in 1751. The Academy’s
first president was Albrecht von Haller. To this day, its members strive
to do justice to this motto, which can be found on the Academy’s seal, pointing
to a special characteristic of the Göttingen Academy: It has always had a
close relationship with the local university. As the second oldest institution of
its kind, it looks back on a long tradition of famous fellows such as Christian
Gottlob Heyne, Carl Friedrich Gauss, the Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm,
David Hilbert, and Werner Heisenberg, to name just a few.
Today, Göttingen Academy fellows are responsible for more than 20 long-term
projects of national and international significance, among them the exploration
of the inscriptions of the Egyptian temple at Edfu, the Encyclopedia of the Folktale,
the Goethe Dictionary and the Septuaginta Venture, which seeks to create
one critical text of the Old Testament from all existing Greek manuscripts. For
some years now, the Göttingen Academy has also increasingly reached out to
the public, e.g. through public lectures organized jointly with the university, or
during “Academy Week”, which addresses a new relevant topic each year. Excellent
research performance is supported by the Academy through awards,
with special attention devoted to the work of junior scientists.
Contact:
Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
Theaterstraße 7 | 37073 Göttingen
Tel.: 0551 / 39 53 62 | Fax: 0551 / 39 53 65
E-Mail: udeppe@gwdg.de | www.uni-goettingen.de
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