I.G.Farben Building at Campus Westend

The Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main (commonly called the University of Frankfurt) 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 the most famous native Frankfurtian, the greatest German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (who would have hated being denied his title in the name). Today, the university has some 36,000 students and is one of Germany's largest universities. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2274x919, 273 KB) Description: Poelzig Building (IG-Farben building) of Frankfurt University Source: Picture taken in Juni 2003 by Johannes Marx (de:user:Hannes72) First uploaded to de-Wikipedia (de:Bild:Poelzig-Uni. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2274x919, 273 KB) Description: Poelzig Building (IG-Farben building) of Frankfurt University Source: Picture taken in Juni 2003 by Johannes Marx (de:user:Hannes72) First uploaded to de-Wikipedia (de:Bild:Poelzig-Uni. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen or Preussen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: PrÅ«sai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of... Frankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city of Germany. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? (pronounced [gø tÉ™]) (August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832) was a German novelist, dramatist, humanist, scientist, philosopher, and he conducted his civic services as a cabinet minister of Weimar. ... A title is a prefix or suffix added to a persons name to signify either veneration, an official position or a professional or academic qualification. ...

The university partly moved to its new Campus at former "I.G. Farben Building"[1] in Frankfurt's Westend. Until the mid-ninties the "I.G. Farben Building (also called "Poelzig Bau" according to its architect) was the headquarter of the American occupying power. The following departments can be found here: This article needs to be wikified. ...

Main building at Campus Bockenheim

• History
• 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. University of Frankfurt entrance File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... University of Frankfurt entrance File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

In the last 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. The universities ambition ist to become Germanies best University for finance. Therefore Frankfurt University’s Goethe Business School developed a new MBA-program in cooperation with the Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

The University of Frankfurt has always 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 racist 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 word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes. ... Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... Look up Nazi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

AfE-Tower at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University

The University of Frankfurt is 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 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. AfE-Tower of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Phtographer: Mastad License: GNU-FDL File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... AfE-Tower of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Phtographer: Mastad License: GNU-FDL File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Institute for Social Research (German: Institut für Sozialforschung) is a research organization covering topics such as sociology and continental philosophy, best known as the institutional home of the Frankfurt School. ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Frankfurt School is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social research, and philosophy. ... Philosophy is a discipline or field of study involving the investigation, analysis, and development of ideas at a general, abstract, or fundamental level. ... Max Horkheimer (front left), Theodor Adorno (front right), and Jürgen Habermas in the background, right, in 1965 at Heidelberg Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist and composer. ... Max Horkheimer (front left), Theodor Adorno (front right), and Jürgen Habermas in the background, right, in 1965 at Heidelberg Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 - July 7, 1973) was a Jewish-German philosopher and sociologist, known especially as the founder and guiding thinker of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. ... Habermas speaking with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, 2004 Jürgen Habermas (born June 18, 1929 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory. ... Herbert Marcuse Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a prominent German-American philosopher and sociologist of Jewish descent, member of the Frankfurt School. ... Erich Fromm Erich Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was an internationally renowned German-American psychologist and humanistic philosopher. ... Benjamin, in 1938. ... Karl Mannheim (March 27, 1893, Budapest - January 9, 1947, London) was a Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century. ... Hans-Georg Gadamer Hans-Georg Gadamer (February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode). ... Franz Rosenzweig (1886 - 1929) was one of the most influential modern Jewish religious thinkers. ... Martin Buber (8 February 1878 - 13 June 1965) was a renowned Jewish philosopher, story-teller, and pedagogue. ... Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. ... Max Wertheimer (Prague, April 15, 1880 - New York, October 12, 1943) was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology. ... Norbert Elias (born June 22, 1897 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland); died August 1, 1990 in Amsterdam) was a German sociologist whose work focused on the relationship between power, behavior, emotion, and knowledge over time. ...

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