Grand Ducal Institute

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Grand Ducal Institute (French: Institut Grand-Ducal) is the national academy of Luxembourg. It is based in Luxembourg City, in the south of the country.

The Institute incorporates six subsections, each dedicated to a separate field of academic research:

• History (Section Historique), established in 1868
• Linguistics, ethnology, and onomastics (Section de Linguistic, d'Ethnologie, et d'Onomastique), established in 1935
• Natural sciences, physics, and mathematics (Section des Sciences Naturelles, Physiques, Mathématiques), established in 1868
• Medicine (Sciences médicales), established in 1868
• The arts and literature (Section des Arts et Lettres), established in 1962
• Philosophy, law, and political science (Section des Sciences Morales et Politiques), established in 1966