Hermann Parzinger elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Press release from 04/25/2014
Following his election to the American Philosophical Society last year, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, is now also a member (Foreign Honorary Member) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the Academy is one of the oldest learned societies in the USA.
The Academy is involved in projects, scientific studies and publications in the fields of the humanities, education and the arts, global security and energy, science and technology, and social policy. Its Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members are among the world's leading scientists and experts in their respective fields, including more than 250 Nobel Prize winners and over 60 Pulitzer Prize winners. On 11 October 2014, the new members will be formally inducted in a ceremony at the Academy's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hermann Parzinger has been President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, one of the world's largest cultural institutions, since March 2008. After studying archaeology and history and completing his doctorate and habilitation, he worked for the German Archaeological Institute, serving as its president from 2003 to February 2008. He still heads international excavation and research projects and publishes regularly. Parzinger has received numerous national and international honours, including the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation and the Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Parzinger is a member of the Order Pour le mérite for Sciences and Arts as well as numerous academies in Russia, China, Spain, Great Britain, Romania, the USA and Germany, including the British Academy, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.