Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur

The Academy of Sciences and Literature (German: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, AdW Mainz) is a scientific academy in Mainz, Germany. It was established in 1949 on an initiative of Alfred Döblin.^[1] The academy's goal is to support science and literature, and in doing so to help preserve and promote culture.

Main building, Geschwister-Scholl-Str., Mainz (Picture: 2011)

Members

The academy has members in three classes: mathematics and natural sciences, humanities and social sciences, literature and music.^[2] Each class has up to 50 full and 50 corresponding members.

Notable members have included Niels Bohr, Otto Hahn, Konrad Lorenz, Halldór Laxness, Heinrich Böll, and Jean-Marie Lehn.^[1]

Awards and Foundations

Awards

The Academy grants several awards:

• Academy Prize of Rhineland-Palatinate
• Academy Award of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for Innovative and Groundbreaking Research
• Alfred Döblin Medal
• Hans Gàl-Prize
• Joachim Vogel Memorial Prize
• Joseph Breitbach Prize
• Leibniz Medal
• Promotion Prize Biodiversity
• Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music
• Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose Akademy Prize for Humanities
• Walter Kalkhof-Rose Memorial Prize
• Wilhelm Lauer Prize

Foundations

• Academy Foundation Mainz
• Cultural Foundation | Stefan Schmitz
• Kurt Ringger Foundation
• Walter und Sibylle Kalkhof-Rose-Stiftung
• Wilhelm Lauer Foundation

Ongoing Research Projects

• Ancient Egyptian Cursive Scripts. Digital palaeography and systematic analysis of hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs (German: Altägyptische Kursivschriften. Digitale Paläographie und systematische Analyse des Hieratischen und der Kursivhieroglyphen)
• Augustine Lexicon (German: Augustinus-Lexikon)
• Buber Correspondences Digital (German: Buber Korrespondenzen Digital)
• Burchard's Decree Digital (German: Burchards Dekret Digital)
• Collection of Sources on the History of German Social Policy 1867 to 1914 (German: Quellensammlung zur Geschichte der deutschen Sozialpolitik 1867 bis 1914)
• Continuity of Research and Research of Continuity – Basic Research on Iron Age Settlement Archaeology in the Baltic Region (German: Forschungskontinuität und Kontinuitätsforschung. Siedlungsarchäologische Grundlagenforschung zur Eisenzeit im Baltikum)
• Controversia et Confessio. Source Edition on Confession Formation and Confessionalisation (1548-1580). (German: Controversia et Confessio. Quellenedition zur Bekenntnisbildung und Konfessionalisierung [1548-1580])
• The Corpus of Hittite Festive Rituals: State Administration of Cultic Life in Late Bronze Age Anatolia (German: Das Corpus der hethitischen Festrituale: staatliche Verwaltung des Kultwesens im spätbronzezeitlichen Anatolien)
• Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi
• Digital Dictionary of German Surnames (DFD). (German: Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands [DFD]))
• European Religious Peace Digital (German: Europäische Religionsfrieden Digital)
• The German Inscriptions (German: Die Deutschen Inschriften)
• Handschriftencensus (HSC) – Competence Centre German-language Manuscripts of the Middle Ages (German: Handschriftencensus (HSC) – Kompetenzzentrum Deutschsprachige Handschriften des Mittelalters)
• Hans Kelsen Works (German: Hans Kelsen Werke)
• Lessico Etimologico Italiano
• Middle High German Dictionary (German: Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch)
• Propylaea. Research platform on Goethe's biographica. Letters, diaries, encounters and conversations. Chronology. Sources. Research. Focus (German: Propyläen. Forschungsplattform zu Goethes Biographica. Briefe, Tagebücher, Begegnungen und Gespräche. Chronologie. Quellen. Recherche. Fokus)
• Regesta Imperii (Sources on the History of the Empire). (German: Regesta Imperii [Quellen zur Reichsgeschichte])
• regionalsprache.de (REDE)
• The School of Salamanca. A Digital Collection of Sources and a Dictionary of Its Juridical-Political Language (German: Die Schule von Salamanca. Eine digitale Quellensammlung und ein Wörterbuch ihrer juristisch-politischen Sprache)