This year’s annual event of the Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friends followed its Members’ Assembly. This provided the festive setting for the awarding of the Johann Lorenz Bausch Scholarship 2018 to Mattia Mantovani. Beforehand, he spoke about his project “Finalism and mechanicism in early modern medicine and science: The case of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum”.
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Since autumn 2018, the art-historically valuable former ritual room VI of the Freemason Lodge “Zu den Drei Degen” (now the main building of the Leopoldina) has shone in new splendour. With the acquisition and reconstruction of the new main building on the Jägerberg, the Leopoldina has also visibly gained a very special radiance far beyond
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This year, the Leopoldina Circle of Friends is once again funding the school student programme for around 40 highly gifted students. Guests of the Annual Assembly at the invitation of the Leopoldina and the Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friends reg. ass. are also around 40 gifted pupils from all over Germany. They will follow the
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On the south side of the headquarters, the new glass panes were installed in mid-September 2018. The replacement on the opposite side will take place in spring 2019. The windows were designed by the Halle artist Christine Triebsch, who studied at the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle and is now a professor of painting/glass there.
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It is endowed with 5,000 € and named after the Academy’s founder Johann Lorenz Bausch. The scholarship is aimed at young scholars working in the field of the history of science, in the narrower as well as the broader sense. This year, the awardee is Mattia Mantovani. His project is called “Finalism and mechanicism
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The Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friends announced the Johann Lorenz Bausch Scholarship for the second time in 2017. Awardee Floriana Giallombardo (3rd from right) with Board members Santer zur Horst-Meyer, Dietrich Kloevekorn-Norgall (from right) and Klaus von der Heyde, Jutta Schnitzer-Ungefug, Horst Dietz (from left). Photo: Press Office Stefan Pfister/Schweinfurt
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For 2017, the Minister of State for Culture and the Media, Monika Grütters, has for the first time announced a programme to support restoration and conservation measures of nationally valuable cultural property. Example image of an already restored file Photo: ZFB
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During the ceremonial opening of its annual assembly on Friday the 22nd of September 2017 in Halle (Saale), the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina awarded the Leopoldina Prize for Young Scientists to Tobias Giessen, Boston, MA, and Markus Tschurtschenthaler, Munich, for their outstanding research achievements in the fields of biochemistry and genetics. Prof. Dr Jörg
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After the former building of the Masonic Lodge “Zu den Drei Degen” , erected 1824 – 1887, was handed over to the city of Halle (Saale) in the 1930s, the vast majority of the lodge’s objects were removed; only a single ritual room has been preserved, but its original painting has disappeared under a coat
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The Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friends reg. ass. announced the Johann-Lorenz-Bausch Scholarship for the first time in 2017. Awardee Julia Böttcher with Board members Santer zur Horst-Meyer, Dietrich Kloevekorn-Norgall, Jutta Schnitzer-Ungefug, Klaus von der Heyde (from right) and Horst Dietz (left). Photos: Markus Scholz Horst Dietz congratulates awardee Julia Böttcher
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