The Academy of Sciences and Literature (German: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, AdW Mainz) is a scientific academy in Mainz, Germany. It was established in 1949 on an initiative of Alfred Döblin.[1] The academy's goal is to support science and literature, and in doing so to help preserve and promote culture.
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Members
The academy has members in three classes: mathematics and natural sciences, humanities and social sciences, literature and music.[2] Each class has up to 50 full and 50 corresponding members.
Notable members have included Niels Bohr, Otto Hahn, Konrad Lorenz, Halldór Laxness, Heinrich Böll, and Jean-Marie Lehn.[1]
Awards and Foundations
Awards
The Academy grants several awards:
- Academy Prize of Rhineland-Palatinate
- Academy Award of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for Innovative and Groundbreaking Research
- Alfred Döblin Medal
- Hans Gàl-Prize
- Joachim Vogel Memorial Prize
- Joseph Breitbach Prize
- Leibniz Medal
- Promotion Prize Biodiversity
- Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music
- Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose Akademy Prize for Humanities
- Walter Kalkhof-Rose Memorial Prize
- Wilhelm Lauer Prize
Foundations
- Academy Foundation Mainz
- Cultural Foundation | Stefan Schmitz
- Kurt Ringger Foundation
- Walter und Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose-Stiftung
- Wilhelm Lauer Foundation
Ongoing Research Projects
- Ancient Egyptian Cursive Scripts. Digital palaeography and systematic analysis of hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs (German: Altägyptische Kursivschriften. Digitale Paläographie und systematische Analyse des Hieratischen und der Kursivhieroglyphen)
- Augustine Lexicon (German: Augustinus-Lexikon)
- Buber Correspondences Digital (German: Buber Korrespondenzen Digital)
- Burchard's Decree Digital (German: Burchards Dekret Digital)
- Collection of Sources on the History of German Social Policy 1867 to 1914 (German: Quellensammlung zur Geschichte der deutschen Sozialpolitik 1867 bis 1914)
- Continuity of Research and Research of Continuity – Basic Research on Iron Age Settlement Archaeology in the Baltic Region (German: Forschungskontinuität und Kontinuitätsforschung. Siedlungsarchäologische Grundlagenforschung zur Eisenzeit im Baltikum)
- Controversia et Confessio. Source Edition on Confession Formation and Confessionalisation (1548-1580). (German: Controversia et Confessio. Quellenedition zur Bekenntnisbildung und Konfessionalisierung [1548-1580])
- The Corpus of Hittite Festive Rituals: State Administration of Cultic Life in Late Bronze Age Anatolia (German: Das Corpus der hethitischen Festrituale: staatliche Verwaltung des Kultwesens im spätbronzezeitlichen Anatolien)
- Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi
- Digital Dictionary of German Surnames (DFD). (German: Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands [DFD]))
- European Religious Peace Digital (German: Europäische Religionsfrieden Digital)
- The German Inscriptions (German: Die Deutschen Inschriften)
- Handschriftencensus (HSC) – Competence Centre German-language Manuscripts of the Middle Ages (German: Handschriftencensus (HSC) – Kompetenzzentrum Deutschsprachige Handschriften des Mittelalters)
- Hans Kelsen Works (German: Hans Kelsen Werke)
- Lessico Etimologico Italiano
- Middle High German Dictionary (German: Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch)
- Propylaea. Research platform on Goethe's biographica. Letters, diaries, encounters and conversations. Chronology. Sources. Research. Focus (German: Propyläen. Forschungsplattform zu Goethes Biographica. Briefe, Tagebücher, Begegnungen und Gespräche. Chronologie. Quellen. Recherche. Fokus)
- Regesta Imperii (Sources on the History of the Empire). (German: Regesta Imperii [Quellen zur Reichsgeschichte])
- regionalsprache.de (REDE)
- The School of Salamanca. A Digital Collection of Sources and a Dictionary of Its Juridical-Political Language (German: Die Schule von Salamanca. Eine digitale Quellensammlung und ein Wörterbuch ihrer juristisch-politischen Sprache)
References
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- ^ a b "Structure and History : Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur". Mainz. 9 July 1949. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "adw-mainz". Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities. Berlin. 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
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