Honors, Diplomas, and Appointmens of Gauss

1. Matriculation papers, University of Göttingen, October 15, 1795.

2. Doctor's Diploma, University of Helmstedt, July 16, 1799.

3. Full member, club in the Hotel d'Angleterre, Brunswick, August 5, 1802.

4. Corresponding member, Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, January 31, 1802.

5. Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen, "amicus et familiaris litterarum commerciis conjunctus, "November 13, 1802

6. Institut National, Class of mathematical and physical sciences, corresponding member of the section for geometry, Paris, January 24-30, 1804. Signed by Carnot, President, and delambre, Secretary.

7. Fellow, Royal Society of London, April 12, 1807

8. Call to University of Göttingen, July 25, 1807. Signed at Hanover by Brandes.

9. Corresponding member, Royal Academy of Sciences in Munich, April 6, 1808.

10. The mathematical class of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin unanimously named Gauss a full member and called him there; the entire academy approved this election on April 18. 1810, and the King of Prussia added his approval.

11. Foreign member, Italian Society of Sciences, Verona, May 4, 1810. Signed by Octavius cagnoli, Secretary.

12. Knight of the Order of the Westphalian Crown (Jérôme Napoléon), Göttingen, August 19, 1810. Signed by Minister of State Count von Fürstenstien

13. Lalande Prize; French Academy, 1810.

14. Knight Commander's cross, first class, of the Guelph Order. Notification signed by Count Münster at Hanover, Dececmber 28, 1815.

15. Letters patent conferring the title of Royal Hofrath, signed by George III at carlton House, November 29, 1816.

16. Full member, socienty for the Advancement of All natural Sciences in Marburg, March 26, 1817.

17. Knight's Cross, Dannebrog Order, April, 1817; Commander's Cross, June 28, 1840.

18. Fpreign Member, Royal Bourbon Society, Academy of Sciences, Naples, September 4, 1818. Notificationsigned by Teodoro Monticelli. (Note by Gauss: Monticelli died at naples October 7, 1845.)

19. Honorary member, Society for the Propagation of Mathmatical Sciences, Hamburg, October 17, 1818.

20. Honorary Member, Courland Society of Literature and Art, Mitan, JUne 1, 1819.

21. Foreigh Member, Royal Society of Edinburgh, June 5, 1820.

22. Full foreign member, Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Paris, October 23, 1820.

23. Foreign Associate, Associate, Institut de France, Royal Academy of Sciences, Paris, September 4, 1820.

24. Director of Geodetic Survey, Kingdom of Hanover, 1821.

25. Member, Royal Danish Society of Sciences, May 1, 18121. Notification signed at Copenhagen by Oersted, Secretary.

26. Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, June 5, 1821. Notification signed by Berzelius, Secretary. Diploma dated June 26, 1821.

27. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1822. Notification signed by John Quincy Adams, President; John Thornton Kirkland, Vice-President; John Farrar and Josiah Quincy, Secretaries.

28. Prize, Copenhagen Society of Sciences, for memoir on conformal projection, 1822.

29. Raise in salary to 2,500 thalers, Board of Curators, University of Göttingen. Signed by Curator, Baron Karl Friedrich Alexander von Arnswaldt, December 29, 1824.

30. Appointed full professor, 1828.

31. Member, Royal Academy of Palermo, 1828.

32. Associate, Royal Astronomical Society of London, April 13, and Augustus DeMorgan, Secretary.

33. Corresponding member, Academy of Sciences at Bologna, January 31, 1833.

34. Foreign member, Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, January 20, 1833. Notification signed by Count Prosper Balbo, Minister of State and President.

35. Foreign Member, Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences, Prague, December 1, 1833.

36. Director of Hanoverian Board of Weights and Measures, 1836.

37. Honorary Member, Physical Union, Frankfort, August 17, 1836.

38. Chevalier of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honor, August 26, 1837.

39. Copley Medal, Royal Society of London, 1838.

40. Foreign correspondent, Royal Academy of Sciences and Belles-Lettres of Brussels, December 14, 1841. Signed by Quetelet.

41. Knight of the Peace class of the order pour le mérite for sciences and arts, Berlin, May 31, 1842. [This was the highest honor conferred by the Kingdom of Prussia and later by the German Empire]

42. Member, Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala, June 3, 1843.

43. Honorary member, Royal Irish Academy, march 16, 1843. Diploma dated Dublin, October 5, 1851.

44. Knight of the Swedish Order of the North Star, Stockholm, October 14, 1844.

45. Member, first class, Royal Institute of sciences, Belles-Lettres and Beaux Arts in Holland, Amsterdam, April 19, 1845. Signed by W.H. de Vriese, Secretary ad interim.

46. Letters patent conferring the honorary title of Geheimer Hofrath, dated at Göttingen, July 1, 1845. Signed by King Ernst August of Hanover.

47. diploma of honorary member of the philosophical faculty, University of Prague, 1848.

48. Honorary doctorate and member of the Society of Sciences, University of Kasan, January 12, 1848.

49. Foreign honorary member, Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna, January 26, 1848.

50. Congratulatory diploma of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences on the golden jubilee of his doctorate, Munich, July 10, 1849.

51. Commander's Cross, second class, Guelph Order, July 11, 1849. Notification signed at Hanover by King Ernst August.

52. Congratulations of the Royal Hanover, July 14, 1849.

53. Congratulatory letter on the golden jubilee from C.W. Wippermann, electoral Hessian Minister of Finance, Kassel, July 15, 1849.

54. Jubilee congratulations of the Collegium Carolinum, Brunswick, July 15, 1849.

55. Commander's Cross of the Order of Henry the Lion, conferred by duke Wilhelm of Brunswick, July 16, 1849.

56. Jubilee congratulations of the University of Kasan, July, 1849 (on silk). 57. Renewal of doctor's diploma by the University of Göttingen, July, 1849. [Since the University of Helmstedt no longer existed]

58. Honorary citizenship of the city of Göttingen, July, 1849.

59. Jubilee congratulations of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, July, 1849.

60. Honorary citizenship of the city of Brunswick, July, 1849.

61. Member, Spanish Academy of Sciences, Madrid, 1850.

62. Foreign honorary member, Imperial Russian Geographical Society, September 29, 1851.

63. Honorary member, Royal Church Deputation of the University, Göttingen, December 28, 1852 (in recognition of Gauss' work on the insurance fund for widows of professors).

64. Honorary member, Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna, diploma dated December 31, 1852 (elected January 26, 1848).

65. Member, American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Diploma dated January 21, 1853 (recieved February 26, 1853).

66. Knight Commander's Cross, first class, Guelph Order, Hanover, May 27, 1853. diploma signed by King George.

67. Bavarian Order of Maximilian for Art and Science, November 28, 1853. Notification signed by Maria Josef Portner.

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68. Notification of the hanoverian Cabinet Ministry concerning a special gift of 1,000 thalers in gold to Gauss.

69. Cambridge Philosophical Society

70. Dutch Society of Sciences, Harlem.

71. Imperial royal Lombard Institute at Milan.

72. Royal Saxon Society of Sciences, Leipzig.


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