The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, which has had many names since its inception, looks back on an eventful past. Reconstituted in its present form in 1992 by an interstate agreement between Berlin and Brandenburg, it carries on the tradition of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. It was founded in 1700 by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716). From the start, this institution united the natural sciences and the humanities, which made it the prototype for many academies that followed.
