On the 24th of May 2012, on the occasion of the inauguration of the new headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, a joint event of the Leopoldina, the Moritzburg Foundation – Art Museum of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, and the Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friends took place in the Moritzburg in Halle (Saale).
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When the four physicians Johann Lorenz Bausch, Johann Michael Fehr, Georg Balthasar Metzger and Georg Balthasar Wohlfahrth founded the Academia Naturae Curiosorum in the Free Imperial City of Schweinfurt in 1652, which later received the name Leopoldina, they wanted to “explore nature […] for the glory of God and the benefit of mankind”. To this
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From the 29th of January to the 25th of March 2012, the exhibition of the Garden of Health will be held at the Historic Orphanage in the Francke Foundations in Halle. Detail from the cover of the exhibition catalogue Image: Archive of the Francke Foundations in Halle
read more From the 29th of January to the 25th of March 2012, the exhibition of the Garden of Health will be held at the Historic Orphanage in the Francke Foundations in Halle. Detail from the cover of the exhibition catalogue Image: Archive of the Francke Foundations in Halle
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In the new headquarters of the Leopoldina on the Jägerberg in Halle (Saale), the lighting in the historical rooms (ballroom, lecture hall, lounge and foyers) forms an important component. In the building, which was reconstructed according to historical models and in compliance with the preservation order, the interplay between history and modernity is achieved on
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As part of the annual exhibition “New Directions in Medicine”, a lecture and presentation evening of the Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friends will take place on the 27th of September 2011, from 6.00 p.m., on board the MS Wissenschaft in Berlin. The MS Science Photo: studiograu, Berlin
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Around 150 historical election files of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina could be saved from decay with financial support from the Leopoldina Academy Circle of Friends State of the files before restoration Photo: ZFB State of the files after restoration Photo: ZFB
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Around 1,400 historical portraits of members of the Leopoldina are now available to the Academy’s archive in digital form. Press conference on the occasion of the completion of the digitization project at the Leopoldina in Halle on the 11th of June 2010. Photos: Markus Scholz
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The Darwin Badge of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina was awarded to the Swedish molecular biologist and palaeogeneticist Prof. Dr Svante Pääbo, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, on the 25th of November. Leopoldina president Prof. ter Meulen presents the Darwin Badge to Prof. Dr Svante Pääbo Photo: Markus Scholz
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The transfer of the entire written estate of Otto Kleinschmidt (1870-1954), an important member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, was officially honoured on the 17th of November 2009 with a lecture event and the opening of an exhibition in the Academy buildings in Halle. Written estate of Otto Kleinschmidt Photo: Markus Scholz /
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