Goethe University of Frankfurt

Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Type Public
Established 1914
Endowment € 518 Million (2011)[1]
President Birgitta Wolff
Academic staff
 636 (2013)[2]
Students 46,613 (2014/15)[2]
Location Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Nickname Uni Frankfurt / Goethe Uni
Website www.uni-frankfurt.de

The Goethe University of Frankfurt (full German name: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university that was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means that, while a state university of Prussia, it was founded and funded by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt am Main, a unique feature in German university history. 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. It is thus also referred to as "Goethe University" in both formal and informal settings. The university currently has around 46,000 students, distributed across four major campuses within the city.

18 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with the university, including Max von Laue and Max Born.[3] The university is also affiliated with 11 winners of the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.[4] The university celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2014. The very first female president of the university, Professor Dr. Birgitta Wolff, was sworn into office in 2015.<ref name=Neue Uni-Präsidentin will kommunikativen Führungsstil"">"Neue Uni-Präsidentin will kommunikativen Führungsstil". Retrieved 2015-03-03. </ref>

History

Campus Bockenheim (in 1958)

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 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 also has also 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.[5] 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:[6]：

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 neoclassicist architecture . 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.

When the university took over the complex, the same style was also adopted for several new buildings . 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 (excerpt)

Nobel Prize winners (alumni and faculty)

World rankings

University rankings
Global
ARWU[12] 101-150
Times[13] 201-250
QS[14] 243=

Points of interest

See also

References

  1. ↑ "House of Finance Endowment". Hof.uni-frankfurt.de. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
  2. 1 2 uni-frankfurt.de: Data 2009. December 2009
  3. ↑ "Nobel prize Physics laureates".
  4. ↑ "Leibniz Prize Laureates" (PDF).
  5. ↑ "Die Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität auf dem Weg zur führenden Wirtschaftshochschule in Deutschland" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-09-26.
  6. ↑ "Faculties". Retrieved 2014-05-11.
  7. ↑ "Nobel Prize Goethe University". Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  8. ↑ "Loewi, Otto". Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  9. 1 2 "Nobelpreisträger an der Goethe Universität".
  10. ↑ "Niels K. Jerne - Biographical". Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  11. ↑ "Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn - Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved 2016-03-11.
  12. ↑ "Academic Ranking of World Universities: Global". Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  13. ↑ "World University Rankings 2015-2016". Times Higher Education. 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  14. ↑ "QS World University Rankings® 2015/16". Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2015. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Global Companies Rank Universities". New York Times. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
  16. ↑ "Academic Ranking of World Universities 2012". Retrieved 3 December 2012.
  17. 1 2 "QS World University Rankings 2010 Results".

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