Johann Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University - Its Present Profile

We are especially proud of:

• one of the highest percentages of foreign students in German universities,
  
  
• an unbroken tradition of private sponsoring covering more substantial donations, legacies, awards, and foundations than any other German university,
  
  
• 6 awardees of the most renowned German Research Award, the ´Leibniz-Award´, among our faculty - more than any other German university - in social philosophy (Jürgen Habermas), history (Lothar Gall), physics (Reinhard Stock), history of law (Michael Stolleis), mathematics (Claus-Peter Schnorr) and chemistry (Christian Griesinger),
  
  
• further prominent academics in Frankfurt: Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Carlo Schmid, Alexander Mitscherlich, Walter Greiner, Paul Ehrlich, Gustav Embden
  
  
• 10 Endowed Chairs in fields as diverse as poetry, jewish philosophy of religion, chemistry, medicine, science and society, international banking, ethics of journalism, pharmacy, international finance and intercultural theology to contribute to the university´s intellectual and material enrichment,
  
  
• the first chair of gender studies in Germany (established in 1987),
  
  
• 8 long-term interdisciplinary research groups, funded by the federal German Research Organisation on a highly competetive basis, carrying out top-research on
  
  Non-linear Dynamics - Instabilities and formation of structure in Physical Systems
  
  Highly correlated Electron Systems
  
  History of Culture and Languages in the natural environment of the Westafrican Savannah
  
  Molecular and cellular basis of neuronal organization
  
  Competitive advantage by Networking - Development of the Frankfurt and Rhine-Main region
  
  Molecular Bioenergetics
  
  Supramolecular organization of cellular Regulation and Transport Processes
  
  Nitric Oxide: Generator- and Effector Systems