Which academy elected Faraday a Foreign Honorary Member in 1832?

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences elected Faraday a Foreign Honorary Member in 1832.

The election recognised Faraday’s growing international reputation as an experimental scientist. By that time, his investigations into electromagnetism and electrochemistry had made him one of Britain’s most important natural philosophers, even though he had not followed a conventional university education.

The title matters because it identifies a specific institution and membership category. Faraday was not elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1832; that election came later, in 1840. He also joined the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1838 and the French Academy of Sciences in 1844.

The American Academy’s foreign honorary membership was intended for distinguished scholars based outside the United States. Faraday’s election therefore placed him within an international network of scientific recognition well before the later development of fully unified electromagnetic theory by James Clerk Maxwell.