Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Since its foundation in 1759, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities has undergone several transformations regarding its structure and the way it sees itself. However, its key goals of doing research, promoting science, and being a scholarly society, a non-university research establishment and a venue for vigorous academic discussion, have remained unchanged throughout the years. In terms of staff, research programme and budget, the Bavarian Academy is the largest of the eight German academies of sciences and humanities that have joined together in the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities. Ordinary and Corresponding Fellows of the Academy must have “made outstanding contributions to the enhancement of knowledge” in their respective fields of study. Ordinary Fellows must be residents of Bavaria. The Bavarian Academy is responsible for projects and institutes committed to basic research in the humanities and the natural sciences. The commissions responsible for the publication of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae, the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, and the Bavarian Dictionary are all based at the Academy, for example. Scientific research includes glaciology and global geodesy projects. The Academy is also home to the Walther Meissner Institute for Low Temperature Research, and operates one of the three national high-performance computing centres in Germany, the Leibniz Computing Centre. The current President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, which is headquartered at the Residence at Munich Court Garden, is Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Hoffmann.


Contact:
Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Alfons-Goppel-Straße 11 | 80539 München
Tel.: 089 / 230 31 0 | Fax: 089 / 230 31 11 00
E-Mail: info@badw.de | www.badw.de


Office

Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2
55131 Mainz / Germany
Tel.: +49 - 61 31/21 85 28-0
Fax: +49 - 61 31/21 85 28-11
info@akademienunion.de




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