Prussian Academy

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Prussian Academy may refer to:

  • Prussian Academy of Arts (Preußische Akademie der Künste), an art school set up in Berlin in 1694/1696, disbanded in 1955 after the 1954 foundation of two separate academies of art for East Berlin and West Berlin in 1954, which merged in 1993 to form the present-day Academy of Arts, Berlin (Akademie der Künste, Berlin)
  • Prussian Academy of Sciences, an academic academy established in Berlin in 1700; following German reunification, the academy was disbanded and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) was founded in its place
  • Prussian Military Academy, renamed Staff College, dissolved following World War II