Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities

‘Fecundat et ornat’ – it brings forth and it adorns – this was the central idea under which the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen) was founded in 1751 by the monarch King George II of Great Britain, Elector of Hanover. As the oldest continuously existing institution of its kind in Germany, the Göttingen Academy can look back on a long tradition, with famous members such as the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, David Hilbert and Werner Heisenberg.

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