Goethe University Frankfurt

Goethe University Frankfurt, in German the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main, is a public research university in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, funded largely by the wealthy and liberal citizenry of the city, among them members of Frankfurt's Jewish community such as the Speyer family. Its name was extended in 1932 in honour of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, born in the city. The university has around 48,000 students on four campuses and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2014. Twenty Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with it, including the physicists Max von Laue and Max Born, and it was the home of the Institute for Social Research, founded in 1923, where the Frankfurt School took shape. It forms the Rhine-Main-Universities alliance with Mainz and Darmstadt.