Berlin - Academy of Sciences

(Local Name: Academie der Wissenschaften) On the eastern side of Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt, on the corner of Jägerstrasse and Markgrafenstrasse, is the Academy of Sciences, found in a building constructed in 1901 for the former Prussian Imperial Bank. The Academy was originally founded in 1700 by Elector Frederick III, on the initiative of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Outstanding figures associated with the Academy over the centuries have included Franz Karl Achard, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Leonhard Euler, Albert Einstein, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, Max Planck and Rudolf Virchow. After the post-war turmoil the Academy was able to resume its activities in 1946