Prussian Academy of Sciences

The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences was an academy established in Berlin, Germany, on 11 July 1700 on the advice of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who was appointed its president. Prince elector Frederick III of Brandenburg founded it as the Electoral Brandenburg Society of Sciences, and it was renamed the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences when Frederick was crowned King in Prussia in 1701. Unlike other academies of its time it was the first to teach both sciences and humanities, and in the eighteenth century, when French was the language of science and culture, it worked as a French language institution. In this atlas it is the Berlin academy that gave a post to Leonhard Euler in 1741.