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| Established: | 1912/1914 |
| Type: | Public university |
| Rector: | Prof. The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The word rector ("ruler" from the Latin regere and Rector meaning "Teacher" In Latin has a number of different meanings but all of them indicate an academic Dr. Rudolf Steinberg |
| Students: | ca. Rudolf Steinberg (born 23 June, 1943 in Cochem, Germany) was professor for public rights and since 2000 has been president of the Johann The word student is etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation Verb "studēre" 32,850 |
| Location: |  Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Website: | www.uni-frankfurt.de |
The Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (also known as Frankfurt University) was founded in 1914 as a Citizens' University, which means that while it was a State university of Prussia, it had been founded and financed by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt am Main, a unique feature in German university history. Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state It was named in 1932 after one of the most famous natives of Frankfurt, poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfgaŋ fɔn ˈgøːtə (in English generally ˈgɝːtə 28 August 1749 22 March 1832 was a German writer Today, the university has some 33,000 students.
The university has partly moved to its new campus at the former I.G. Farben Building (now named by some people as Poelzig-Bau after its architect Hans Poelzig), in Frankfurt's Westend district. The IG Farben Building or the Poelzig Building, was built from 1928 to 1930 as the corporate headquarters of the IG Farben conglomerate in Frankfurt am Main Hans Poelzig ( 30 April, 1869 Berlin &ndash June 14, 1936 Berlin) was a German architect painter and set Westend area of Frankfurt contains the two districts of Westend-Nord and Westend-Süd. The following departments can be found here:
- History and Philosophy
- Protestant Theology
- Roman Catholic Theology
- Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Cultural and Civilization Studies
Other departments that are currently located on the old campus will be moved to the Westend Campus in the coming years; the various departments of natural sciences reside at the Campus Riedberg; the department of medicine has its various buildings in southern Frankfurt at the Campus Niederrad.
In recent years the University turned its attention especially to law, history and economics. Therefore new Institutes as the ILF (Institute for Law and Finance) or the CFS (Center of Financial Studies). New buildings for law and economics at the new campus are under construction. One of the university's ambitions is to become Germany's best university for finance. Therefore Frankfurt University’s Goethe Business School developed a new MBA program in cooperation with Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. The Master of Business Administration ( MBA) is a Master's degree in Business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines Duke University is a private Research University located in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
The University of Frankfurt has at times been considered liberal, or left-leaning, and has had a reputation for Jewish and Marxist scholarship (or even Jewish-Marxist). PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Thus, during Nazi 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. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German " (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 (founded 1924), institutional home of the Frankfurt School, one of the most important 20th century schools of philosophy and social thought at all. The Institute for Social Research ( German: Institut für Sozialforschung) is a research organization covering topics such as Sociology The Frankfurt School is a school of neo-Marxist Critical theory, Social research, and Philosophy. Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence knowledge truth beauty justice validity mind and language Some of the most famous University of Frankfurt scholars are associated with this school, including Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Jürgen Habermas, as well as Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, and Walter Benjamin. Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno ( September 11, 1903 &ndash August 6, 1969) was a German -born international sociologist Max Horkheimer (February 14 1895 &ndash July 7 1973 was a German Philosopher and Sociologist, and a founder and guiding thinker of Critical Jürgen Habermas (ˈjʏʁgən ˈhaːbɐmaːs born June 18, 1929 is a German Philosopher and Sociologist in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse ( July 19, 1898 &ndash July 29, 1979) was a German philosopher and sociologist, and a member of Erich Pinchas Fromm ( March 23, 1900 &ndash March 18, 1980) was an internationally renowned social psychologist, psychoanalyst Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin ( July 15, 1892 &ndash September 27, 1940) was a German - Jewish Marxist Others include the sociologist Karl Mannheim, the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, the philosophers of religion Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Paul Tillich, the psychologist Max Wertheimer, and the anthropologist Norbert Elias. Karl Mannheim ( March 27, 1893, Budapest – January 9, 1947, London) or Mannheim Károly in the original writing Hans-Georg Gadamer (ˈgaːdamɐ February 11, 1900 &ndash March 13, 2002) was a German Philosopher of the continental Franz Rosenzweig ( December 25, 1886 December 10, 1929) was an influential Jewish theologian and philosopher. Martin Buber ( 8 February 1878 – 13 June 1965) was an Austrian Israeli Jewish Philosopher, translator Paul Johannes Tillich ( August 20, 1886 &ndash October 22, 1965) was a German - American theologian and Christian Max Wertheimer (April 15 1880 – October 12 1943 was a Czech -born Jewish teacher who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, Norbert Elias ( June 22, 1897 &mdash August 1, 1990) was a German sociologist of Jewish descent who later became
Notable faculty
- Walter Hallstein (1901–1982), first President of the European Commission
- Boudewijn Sirks, Professor of the History of Ancient Law from 1997 to 2005, later Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford
External links
- University homepage
- Movie
- History of the IG Farben building
- Profile and recent articles of Goethe Business School of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main