Goethe University Frankfurt, with the German name Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, is a public research university in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, funded by the wealthy and active liberal citizens of the city, and was first called Universität Frankfurt am Main. In 1932 its name was extended in honour of the poet and dramatist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a native son of Frankfurt. It has around 48,000 students on four major campuses.
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Goethe University Frankfurt (German: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a public research university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Goethe University Frankfurt (German: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a public research university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Luckmann was eventually granted a professorship position at the University of Frankfurt in 1965.
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In 1930 Elias chose to cancel this project and followed Karl Mannheim to become his assistant at the University of Frankfurt.
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Leaving grammar school to study philosophy, psychology and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Adorno continued his readings with Kracauer, turning now to Hegel and Kierkegaard, and began publishing concert reviews and pieces of music for distinguished journals like the Zeitschrift für Musik, the Neue Blätter für Kunst und Literatur and later for the Musikblätter des Anbruch.
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Pollock went on to study economy, sociology and philosophy at the LMU Munich, where he attended the lectures of Max Weber, at the University of Freiburg, where he spent a semester with Edmund Husserl, and at the University of Frankfurt, always with Horkheimer.
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After a post-doctorate at the SUM (Istituto Italiano di Science Umane) under the guidance of Roberto Esposito, she taught at the University of Frankfurt, subsequently joining the faculty of The New School for Social Research, where she taught from 2010 to 2025.
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he accepted a call to serve as Chair for Sociology and Theoretical Political Economy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main
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He received his Ph.D. from the Frankfurter Universität in 1928
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