Founded | 1 January 1652, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation |
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Type | National academy (since 2007) |
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Services | scholarships, awards, consultation, research |
Fields | science, academics |
Members | 1,600 members |
Key people | Gerald Haug (President) |
Website | leopoldina |
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (German: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany. It is in Halle. Started on 1 January 1652, based on models in Italy, it was first named the Academia Naturae Curiosorum until 1687 when Emperor Leopold I raised it to an academy and named it after himself.[1] It was then known under the German name Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina until 2007, when it was said publicly to be Germany's National Academy of Sciences.[1]
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