Goethe University Frankfurt

Goethe University
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Former name
 Königliche Universität zu Frankfurt am Main[1]
Type Public
Established October 18, 1914 (1914-10-18)[1]
Budget € 630.5 Mio. (2015)[2]
President Birgitta Wolff[3]
Academic staff
 3,421.96 (2015)[2]
Administrative staff
 2,014.63 (2015)[2]
Students 45,076 (2017)[4]
Undergraduates 20,260 (2017)[4]
Postgraduates 5,922 (2017)[4]
2,255 (2017)[4]
Other students
 6,293 (Teacher education) (2017)[4]
Address Campus Westend:
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 1, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, 60323, Germany
50°7′40″N 8°40′00″E / 50.12778°N 8.66667°E / 50.12778; 8.66667Coordinates: 50°7′40″N 8°40′00″E / 50.12778°N 8.66667°E / 50.12778; 8.66667
Campus multiple sites
Language German
Website www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de

Goethe University Frankfurt (German: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt. The original name was Universität Frankfurt am Main. In 1932, the university's name was extended in honour of one of the most famous locals of Frankfurt, the poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The university currently has around 46,000 students, distributed across four major campuses within the city.

The university celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2014. The first female president of the university, Birgitta Wolff, was sworn into office in 2015.[5] 18 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with the university, including Max von Laue and Max Born.[6] The university is also affiliated with 11 winners of the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.[7]

History

Campus Bockenheim (in 1958)

The roots of the university go back to 1484 where the Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg was founded which is part of the university now[8].

The university has historically best been known for its Institute for Social Research (founded 1924), the institutional home of the Frankfurt School, a preeminent 20th century school of philosophy and social thought. Some of the well-known scholars associated with this school include Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Jürgen Habermas, as well as Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, and Walter Benjamin . Other well-known scholars at the University of Frankfurt 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 sociologist Norbert Elias . The University of Frankfurt has at times been considered liberal, or left-leaning, and has had a reputation for Jewish and Marxist (or even Jewish-Marxist) scholarship . During the Nazi period, "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" . The university also played a major part in the German student movement of 1968.

The university also has been influential in the natural sciences and medicine, with Nobel Prize winners including Max von Laue and Max Born, and breakthroughs such as the Stern–Gerlach experiment.

In recent years, the university has focused in particular on law, history, and economics, creating new institutes, such as the Institute for Law and Finance (ILF) and the Center for 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.[9] The Goethe Business School offers a M.B.A. program, in cooperation with Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Goethe university has established an international award for research in financial economics, the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics.

Organization

Campus Westend
University Library at Campus Westend

The university consists of 16 faculties. Ordered by their sorting number, these are:[10]：

In addition, there are several co-located research institutes of the Max Planck Society:

Campuses

Campus Westend
Campus Westend

The University is located across four campuses in Frankfurt am Main:

Headquarters of the university, also housing Social sciences, Pedagogy, Psychology, Theology, Philosophy, History, Philology, Archaeology, Law, Economics and Business Administration, Human geography

University library, Mathematics, Computer science, Art history, Fine Arts

Pharmacy, Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, Geosciences and Geography

Medical science, Dentistry, University hospital

Other facilities include the university sports complex on Ginnheimer Landstraße in Frankfurt-Bockenheim.

Campus Westend

IG Farben Building at Uni Frankfurt
IG Farben Building at Campus Westend

“Campus Westend” of the University is dominated by the IG Farben Building by architect Hans Poelzig, an example of the modernist New Objectivity style.[11][12] The style for the IG Farben Building was originally chosen as "a symbol for the scientific and mercantile German manpower, made out of iron and stone", as the IG Farben director at the time of construction, Baron von Schnitzler, stated in his opening speech in October 1930.

After the university took over the complex, new buildings were added to the campus. On 30 May 2008, the House of Finance relocated to a new building designed by the architects Kleihues+Kleihues, following the style of the IG Farben Building. The upper floors of the House of Finance building have several separate offices as well as shared office space for researchers and students. The ground floor is open to the public and welcomes visitors with a spacious, naturally lit foyer that leads to lecture halls, seminar rooms, and the information center, a 24-hour reference library. The ground floor also accommodates computer rooms and a café. The floors, walls and ceiling of the foyer are decorated with a grid design that is continued throughout the entire building. The flooring is inspired by Raphael's mural, The School of Athens.

Goethe Business School

The Goethe Business School is a graduate business school at the university, established in 2004, part of the House of Finance at the Westend Campus. it is a non-profit foundation under private law held by the university. The Chairman of the Board at GBS, Rolf E. Breuer, is former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank . Goethe Business School has a partnership in Executive Education with the Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad .

The Deutsche Bank Prize

The Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics honors renowned researchers who have made influential contributions to the fields of finance and money and macroeconomics, and whose work has led to practical and policy-relevant results. It is awarded biannually, since 2005, by the Center for Financial Studies, in partnership with Goethe University Frankfurt. The award carries an endowment of €50,000, which is donated by the Stiftungsfonds Deutsche Bank im Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.

Notable faculty (partial list)

Nobel Prize winners (alumni and faculty)

World rankings

University rankings
Global
ARWU[18] 101-150
Times[19] 201-250
QS[20] 264
Europe
ARWU[21] 43
Times[22] 101-110
QS[23] 120

Points of interest

See also

References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Offen in eine neue Zeit. Jahrbuch 2015" (PDF) (in German). Retrieved 2017-05-14.
  3. ↑ "Präsidentin der Goethe-Universität" (in German). Retrieved 2016-05-27.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Studierendenstatistik (Daten pro Semester)" (in German). Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  5. ↑ "Neue Uni-Präsidentin will kommunikativen Führungsstil". Retrieved 2015-03-03.
  6. ↑ "Nobel prize Physics laureates".
  7. ↑ "Leibniz Prize Laureates" (PDF).
  8. ↑ "Geschichte der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek". www.ub.uni-frankfurt.de. Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  9. ↑ "Die Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität auf dem Weg zur führenden Wirtschaftshochschule in Deutschland" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-09-26.
  10. ↑ "Faculties". Retrieved 2014-05-11.
  11. ↑ "Ein Wandgemälde in Frankfurts Universität - Monumente Online". www.monumente-online.de.
  12. ↑ M. Tafuri, F. Dal Co: Klassische Moderne, Stuttgart, 1988, S148f
  13. ↑ "Nobel Prize Goethe University". Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  14. ↑ "Loewi, Otto". Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  15. 1 2 "Nobelpreisträger an der Goethe Universität".
  16. ↑ "Niels K. Jerne - Biographical". Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  17. ↑ "Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn - Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  18. ↑ "Academic Ranking of World Universities: Global". Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 2016. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
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  20. ↑ "QS World University Rankings 2018". Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2017. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
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  22. ↑ "Best universities in Europe 2017". The Times Higher Education. 2016. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
  23. ↑ "QS World University Rankings". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2017. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
  24. ↑ "Global Companies Rank Universities". New York Times. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  25. ↑ "Academic Ranking of World Universities 2012". Retrieved 3 December 2012.
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