Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

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Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (Danish: Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab) is a Danish non-governmental science Academy, founded 13 november 1742 by permission of the King Christian VI, as a historical Collegium Antiquitatum. It was founded by secretary of state, Count Johan Ludvig Holstein and the history professor Hans Gram.

Members of the Academy are researching, lecturing and publishing in near all fields of science. The Academy has approximately 250 national and 260 foreign members.

[edit] Source

• Olaf Pedersen, Lovers of Learning - A History of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 1742-1992, Munksgaard, 1992. ISBN 87-7304-236-6.

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• Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters