Everything about University Of Frankfurt Am Main totally explained
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. It was named in
1932 after one of the most famous natives of Frankfurt, poet and writer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 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 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 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). 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." (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. 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. 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.
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 OxfordFurther Information
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