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The Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (also known as Frankfurt University; today presented as Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) was founded in 1914 as a Citizens' University, which means that while it was a State university of Prussia
Prussia

Prussia was, most recently, a historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. This state had for centuries substantial influence on Germany and European history....
, it had been founded and financed by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt am Main, a unique feature in German university history.






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The Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (also known as Frankfurt University; today presented as Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) was founded in 1914 as a Citizens' University, which means that while it was a State university of Prussia
Prussia

Prussia was, most recently, a historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. This state had for centuries substantial influence on Germany and European history....
, it had been founded and financed by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt am Main, a unique feature in German university history. It was named in 1932 after one of the most famous natives of Frankfurt, poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

was a Germans writer and according to George Eliot, "Germany's greatest man of letters? and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, humanism and science....
. Today, the university has 31,228 students.

Organization


The university is located on four campuses in Frankfurt am Main:

  • Campus Bockenheim: Social sciences, Pedagogy, Psychology, Mathematics, Computer science, Human geography
  • Campus Riedberg: Pharmacy, Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Geosciences and Geography
  • Campus Westend: Theology, Philosophy, History, Philology, Archaeology, Jurisprudence, Economics and Business Administration
  • Campus Niederrad: Medical science, Dentistry, University hospital


Other facilities include the university sports complex on Ginnheimer Landstraße in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, der Bio Campus which houses the Botanic Garden of Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main at the Palmengarten in Frankfurt, and Art history in Frankfurt-Hausen.

History


The University of Frankfurt has at times been considered liberal, or left-leaning, and has had a reputation for Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish and Marxist scholarship (or even Jewish-Marxist). Thus, during Nazi
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
 times, "almost one third of its academics and many of its students were dismissed for racial and/or political reasons—more than at any other German university." (University homepage) It also played a major part of the German student riots of 1968.

The University of Frankfurt is historically best known for the Institute for Social Research
Institute for Social Research

The Institute for social research is a research organization covering topics such as sociology and continental philosophy, best known as the institutional home of the Frankfurt School....
 (founded 1924), institutional home of the Frankfurt School
Frankfurt School

The Frankfurt School is a school of neo-Marxism critical theory, social research, and philosophy. The grouping emerged at the Institute for Social Research of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in Germany when Max Horkheimer became the Institute's director in 1930....
, one of the most important 20th century schools of philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
 and social thought at all. Some of the most famous University of Frankfurt scholars are associated with this school, including Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer

Max Horkheimer was a Germany philosopher and sociologist, and a founding member of the Frankfurt School)....
, and Jürgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas

J?rgen Habermas is a Germany philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and American pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his work on the concept of the public sphere, the topic of his first book....
, as well as Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse was a German people philosophy and sociology, and a member of the Frankfurt School. His best known works are Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man and The Aesthetic Dimension....
, Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm

Erich Seligmann Fromm was an internationally renowned social psychology, psychoanalyst, and humanism philosophy. He was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of critical theory....
, and Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Sch?nflies Benjamin was a Germany-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also influenced by the writings of his younger contemporaries Bertolt Brecht, who developed Marxist aesthetics of dialectical materialism, and G...
. Others include the sociologist Karl Mannheim
Karl Mannheim

Karl Mannheim , or Mannheim K?roly in the original writing of his name, was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociology, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology....
, the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer was a Germany philosopher of the continental philosophy, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method ....
, the philosophers of religion Franz Rosenzweig
Franz Rosenzweig

Franz Rosenzweig was an influential Jewish theology and philosophy....
, Martin Buber
Martin Buber

Martin Buber was an Austrian-Israeli-Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator, whose work centered on theism ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal relations, and community....
, and Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich

Paul Johannes Tillich was a Germany-United States theology and Christian existentialism philosopher. Tillich was, along with his contemporaries Rudolf Bultmann , Karl Barth , and Reinhold Niebuhr , one of the four most influential Protestant theologians of the twentieth century....
, the psychologist Max Wertheimer
Max Wertheimer

Max Wertheimer was a Czechs-born Jewish teacher who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang K?hler....
, and the sociologist Norbert Elias
Norbert Elias

Norbert Elias was a Germany sociology of Jewish descent, who later became a Great Britain citizen.His work focused on the relationship between power, behavior, emotion, and knowledge over time....
.

In recent years the University turned its attention especially to law, history and economics, creating new institutes like the Institute for Law and Finance
Institute for Law and Finance

The Institute for Law and Finance is a graduate school that is part of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.The ILF at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main offers a unique one-year postgraduate program leading to a Master of Laws in Finance for graduate students with a Bachelor's degree in law, business, or economics....
 (ILF) and the Center of Financial Studies (CFS). One of the university's ambitions is to become Germany's leading university for finance and economics, given the school's proximity to one of Europe's financial centers. Therefore Frankfurt University’s Goethe Business School
Goethe Business School

The Goethe Business School is a graduate business school in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, set up as an independent, non-profit foundation under private law, held by Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main....
 developed a new M.B.A.
Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration is a master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines....
 program in cooperation with Duke University
Duke University

Duke University is a private university research university located in Durham, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodism and Religious Society of Friends in the present-day town of Trinity, North Carolina in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892....
’s Fuqua School of Business
Fuqua School of Business

The Fuqua School of Business is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Fuqua is one of the youngest U.S....
, and has established an international award for research in financial economics, the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics
Deutsche bank prize

The Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics, established in 2004 by the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University, is to be awarded every two years to recognize research in finance and monetary economics....
.

Notable faculty

  • Walter Hallstein
    Walter Hallstein

    Walter Hallstein was a Germany politician and professor.He was one of the key figures of European integration after World War II, becoming the first president of the European Commission of the European Commission....
     (1901–1982), first President of the European Commission
    President of the European Commission

    The President of the European Commission is the most powerful office in the European Union, as the head of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union....
  • Boudewijn Sirks
    Boudewijn Sirks

    Adriaan Johan Boudewijn Sirks , known as Boudewijn Sirks and as A. J. B. Sirks, is a Dutch academic lawyer and papyrology specializing in Roman law....
    , Professor of the History of Ancient Law from 1997 to 2005, later Regius Professor of Civil Law
    Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford)

    The Regius Chair of Civil Law, founded in the 1540s, is one of the oldest of the professorships at the University of Oxford....
     at Oxford
    University of Oxford

    The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....


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