German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany. It is in Halle. Started on 1 January 1652, based on models in Italy, it was first named the Academia Naturae Curiosorum until 1687 when Emperor Leopold I raised it to an academy and named it after himself. It was then known under the German name Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina until 2007, when it was said publicly to be Germany's National Academy of Sciences.