The title Academician denotes a Full Member of an art, literary, or scientific academy. Raphaels portrait of Plato, a detail of The School of Athens fresco An an institution for the study of (usually) higher learning. ...

In many countries it is a honorary title. Honorary title may have one of the following meanings. ...

"Academician" may also be a functional title and denote a full member of the National Academy of Sciences in those countries where the Academy has a strong influence on national scientific life, particularly countries that were part of, or influenced by, the Soviet Union. In such countries, "Academician" is used as a honorific (like "Doctor", "Professor" etc) when addressing or speaking about someone. Countries where the term Academician is used in this way include Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania, Croatia and possibly others. A national academy is a body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates the activities of research in (nearly always) the sciences and (sometimes) other disciplines. ... An honorific is a term used to convey esteem or respect. ...

The British honour Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) can be considered as roughly equivalent. The Fellowship of the Royal Society was founded in 1660. ...

There also exists a lower-rank title, variously translated Corresponding Member or Associate Member (of the corresponding academy), Russian: член-корреспондент (chlen-korrespondent).

In the German speaking world, however, the term Akademiker (literally: Academician) is no title, and refers to every person with an academic degree. A degree is any of a wide range of status levels conferred by institutions of higher education, such as universities, normally as the result of successfully completing a program of study. ...

See also: Académie française The Académie française, or French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. ...