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Dashkova Elected to Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

When
1783
Where
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm region
Episodes
1

Princess Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova is recorded in legacy data as elected an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1783, but no supplied passage corroborates the election, its date, or her claimed status as first female foreign member.

Episodes

  1. 1783 · Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm regionUncorroborated Legacy Record of an Honorary Election

    A legacy record alone asserts Vorontsova-Dashkova's 1783 honorary election; no supplied passage corroborates the election, its date, or her precedence.

Background and detail

Background. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, founded on 2 June 1739, is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that promotes natural sciences and mathematics and fosters exchange between disciplines. It is one of Sweden's royal academies and is located within the Stockholm region's Royal National City Park.

Membership Record. Since its founding in 1739, the academy has elected about 1,700 Swedish and 1,200 foreign members. The supplied passages give only these aggregate figures; they do not name individual members or describe any election of a foreign woman in 1783.

Russian Connection. Before her accession, Catherine the Great became acquainted with Princess Ekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, the sister of her husband's official mistress. This acquaintance is the only supplied detail touching Vorontsova-Dashkova; no passage connects her to the Swedish academy.

People involved

Sources

  1. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-14
  2. Catherine the Great Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-25

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