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Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (Danish: Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab) is a Danish non-governmental science Academy, founded November 13, 1742 by permission of the King Christian VI, as a historical Collegium Antiquitatum. It was founded by secretary of state, Count Johan Ludvig Holstein and the history professor Hans Gram. November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ... // Events January 24 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ... Chistian VI (1699-1746) king of Denmark and Norway from 1730. ... A college (Latin collegium) can be the name of any group of colleagues; originally it meant a group of people living together under a common set of rules (con-, together + leg-, law). As a consequence members of colleges were originally styled fellow and still are in some places. ...
Members of the Academy is researching, lecturing and publishing in near all fields of science. The Academy has approximately 250 national and 260 foreign members.
The RoyalDanishAcademy of Sciences and Letters (Kongelige danske videnkabernes selskab) was founded in Copenhagen on 13 November1742 by King Christian VI when the King gathered together a group of experts to sort out his collection of medals.
The Academy began conducting surveys of Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein by the method of triangulation in 1761 and it eventually produced 24 accurate maps of the region.
I C Jacobsen's mansion house became part of the property of the Academy in 1914 and, now named the Carlsberg Academy, small conferences and workshops organised by the DanishAcademy are held there.
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