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The Latvian Academy of Sciences is a successor of several scientific associations, which previously existed in Latvia. Its predecessors are the Kurzeme Society for Literature and Art founded in 1815 in Jelgava and the Commission of Knowledge, founded within the Riga Latvian Society in 1869, which in 1932 was reorganized into the Science Committee with the status of a private academy of sciences. Since 1919, the government of the Republic of Latvia had repeatedly considered the foundation of an official Latvian Academy of Sciences. In 1927 the idea was supported by J. Rainis, who was then Minister of Education. In 1935 the intention to create the Latvian Academy of Sciences was expressed in public by the Prime Minister K. Ulmanis, and on 14 January 1936 by the Cabinet's Act, the Institute of the History of Latvia was founded as the first constituent part of this Academy. In Latvia, the Academy of Sciences started its work on 14 February 1946, when academy members came together for their first General Meeting. Scientists from the University of Latvia and the Latvian Academy of Agriculture formed the core of the Academy of Sciences. When adopting the Charter and new Statutes, by the decision of the General Meeting from 14 February 1992, the Latvian Academy of Sciences was reorganized into a classical type academy, which unites elected members-prominent scientists and other scholars. In the restored Republic of Latvia, the Latvian Academy of Sciences facilitates the development of sciences, carries out scientific research. It looks to it, that all that special, that Latvia and the Latvian people have given and can give to the world science and culture-national culture, language, folklore, literature, social and economic experience, traditions-are realized, studied, perfected, maintained, and passed over to the future generations. It studies and preserves the historical traditions of Riga and regions of Latvia, realizes the place of the Baltic countries in the world. The Latvian Academy of Sciences has joined the international scientific community, collaborates with other academies of sciences and scientific organizations in Europe and the world.

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