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Entrance to the former Prussian Academy of Sciences on Unter Den Linden 8. Today it houses the Berlin State Library.. The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (German: Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften) was an academy established in Berlin, Germany on 11 July 1700, four years after the Prussian Academy of Arts, or "Arts Academy," to which "Berlin Academy" may also refer.
Arnim Palace [], the Prussian Academy of Arts building on Pariser Platz in Berlin, c. 1903. The Prussian Academy of Arts (German: Preußische Akademie der Künste) was a state arts academy first established in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector Frederick III, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and later king in Prussia.
In 1904, he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He collaborated with Mommsen on Inscriptiones Graecae, the corpus of Greek inscriptions from 1893 onwards. In total, he produced nine volumes for the series between 1895 and 1939, mostly dealing with inscriptions from the Aegean islands. Most of these volumes have not been superseded.
Prussia was among the first countries in the world to introduce tax-funded and generally compulsory primary education. [3] In comparison, in France and Great Britain, compulsory schooling was not successfully enacted until the 1880s. [4] The Prussian system consisted of an eight-year course of primary education, called Volksschule. It provided ...
With the collapse of the German monarchy in 1918, the Royal Academy was renamed the Prussian Academy of Sciences (German: Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften). During this period it rose to international fame [11] and its members included top academics in their fields such as Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Hermann Diels, and Ernst Bloch. [10]
Graduating from the Staff College was a prerequisite for appointment to the Prussian General Staff (later the German General Staff). Carl von Clausewitz enrolled as one of its first students in 1801 (before it was renamed), while other attendees included Field Marshals von Steinmetz, von Moltke, and von Blumenthal in the 1820s and 1830s.
At Würzburg he worked closely with embryologist Christian Heinrich Pander, and later on, he taught art history and architectural theory at the University of Bonn, where in 1827 he became a "full professor" of art history. [1] From 1831 to 1840, d'Alton was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts. One of his famous students in Bonn was Karl ...
Ludwig Buchhorn (1770–1856) by Auguste Hüssener, Philadelphia Museum of Art Ludwig Buchhorn: Image from the Die Betteljugend series Karl Ludwig Bernhard Christian Buchhorn (18 April 1770, in Halberstadt – 13 November 1856, in Berlin ) was a German painter and engraver.