Romanian Academy
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Romanian Academy of Sciences and Culture
Key facts
- Founded
- April 1, 1866 ; 160 years ago ( 1866-04-01 )
- Location
- Calea Victoriei , Bucharest , Romania
- President
- Ioan-Aurel Pop
- Vice presidents
- Marius Andruh Mircea Dumitru Dumitru Murariu Nicolae-Victor Zamfir
- General secretary
- I. Dumitrache
- Website
- acad .ro
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Archive, Funder
- Founded
- 1866
- Location
- Bucharest, Romania
- Also known as
- Academia Română, Societatea Academică Romînă, Societatea Literară Română
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.418333.e · ISNI 0000 0004 1937 1389
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- library
- Country
- Romania
- Located in
- Bucharest
- Chairperson
- Traian Săvulescu
- Official website
- acad.ro
- Image
- Academia Romana.jpg
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- inception
- 1866-04-01
- Commons category
- Romanian Academy
- topic's main category
- Category:Romanian Academy
- member category
- Category:Members of the Romanian Academy
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Encyclopedic overview
The Romanian Academy (Romanian: Academia Română [akadeˈmi.a roˈmɨnə]) is a cultural forum founded in Bucharest, Romania, in 1866. It covers the scientific, artistic and literary domains. The academy has 181 active members who are elected for life.
According to its bylaws, the academy's main goals are the cultivation of Romanian language and Romanian literature, the study of the national history of Romania and research into major scientific domains. Some of the academy's fundamental projects are the Romanian language dictionary (Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române), the dictionary of Romanian literature, and the treatise on the history of the Romanian people.
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