Goethe University Frankfurt

Goethe University Frankfurt, officially Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, is a public research university in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and one of the largest universities in the country, with 40,684 students in the winter semester 2025/26.歌德法兰克福大学，正式名称为（Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main），是位于德国美茵河畔法兰克福的公立研究型大学，也是德国规模最大的大学之一，2025 至 2026 年冬季学期共有 40684 名学生。

Founded in 1914 as a citizens' university funded by wealthy liberal residents of Frankfurt rather than by the state, it was renamed in 1932 in honour of the city's most famous son, the poet and dramatist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and today it is one of Germany's leading research universities.该校于 1914 年由法兰克福富有的自由派市民出资、而非由国家主导创办，因而被称为「市民大学」；1932 年为纪念这座城市最著名的儿子、诗人与剧作家约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德而更名，如今已是德国顶尖研究型大学之一。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 376th, it is 193rd in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it is 218th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and it falls in the 151-200 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, with OpenAlex crediting it with 158,600 research works.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中它位列第 376，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 193，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 218，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 151-200 区间；OpenAlex 统计其研究成果为 158600 项。

History

• The university traces its roots to 1484, when a city council library was established with a bequest from the patrician Ludwig von Marburg, a collection that was renamed the City Library in 1668 and became the university library in 1914.该校的渊源可追溯至 1484 年，当时凭借贵族路德维希·冯·马尔堡的遗赠设立了市议会图书馆；这批藏书于 1668 年改称市立图书馆，并于 1914 年成为大学图书馆。

• It also absorbed the Akademie für Sozial- und Handelswissenschaften, a Frankfurt academy of social and commercial sciences founded in 1901.该校还吸收了 1901 年在法兰克福创办的社会与商业科学学院（Akademie für Sozial- und Handelswissenschaften）。

• The modern university dates from 28 September 1912, when the foundation contract for the Königliche Universität zu Frankfurt am Main was signed at the Römer, the city hall of Frankfurt.现代意义的大学始于 1912 年 9 月 28 日，当天在法兰克福市政厅（Römer）签署了「美茵河畔法兰克福皇家大学」的建校契约。

• Royal permission for the new university was granted on 10 June 1914 and the first students enrolled on 16 October 1914.新大学的皇家特许于 1914 年 6 月 10 日获批，首批学生于 1914 年 10 月 16 日注册入学。

• Members of Frankfurt's Jewish community, among them the Speyer family, the banker Wilhelm Ralph Merton and the industrialists Leo Gans and Arthur von Weinberg, donated two thirds of the foundation capital.法兰克福犹太社群的成员，包括施派尔家族、银行家威廉·拉尔夫·默顿以及实业家莱奥·甘斯与阿图尔·冯·魏因贝格，捐出了建校资本的三分之二。

• The widow of the banker Georg Speyer, Franziska Speyer, gave 14 million gold marks, which allowed the university to buy the land of today's Westend campus and to build a medical faculty on the left bank of the river Main.银行家格奥尔格·施派尔的遗孀弗兰齐斯卡·施派尔捐出 1400 万金马克，使大学得以购置今日城西校区的地皮，并在美茵河左岸兴建医学院。

• Because Frankfurt's university was financed mainly by private citizens rather than by the state, it was popularly known as the Bürgeruniversität, the citizens' university.由于该校主要由市民私人出资、而非国家拨款，它在当时被广泛称为「市民大学」（Bürgeruniversität）。

• The Institute for Social Research was founded in 1923 and became the institutional home of the Frankfurt School, a major current of twentieth-century philosophy and social thought.社会研究所于 1923 年成立，成为法兰克福学派的大本营；该学派是 20 世纪哲学与社会思想的重要流派。

• Scholars associated with the Frankfurt School and the university include Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Jürgen Habermas, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm and Walter Benjamin.与法兰克福学派及该校有关的学者包括特奥多尔·阿多尔诺、马克斯·霍克海默、尤尔根·哈贝马斯、赫伯特·马尔库塞、埃里希·弗罗姆与瓦尔特·本雅明。

• In 1932 the university's name was extended to honour Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of the most famous native sons of Frankfurt.1932 年，校名被扩充，以纪念法兰克福最著名的本地人物之一约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德。

• During the Nazi period almost one third of the university's academics and many of its students were dismissed for racial or political reasons, a higher proportion than at any other German university.在纳粹时期，该校近三分之一的学者与许多学生因种族或政治原因被解职或开除，比例高于德国任何其他大学。

• The university played a major part in the German student movement of 1968, when protests over university governance and the Vietnam War spread from its lecture halls.该校在 1968 年德国学生运动中扮演了重要角色，当时围绕大学治理与越南战争的抗议正是从其讲堂扩散开来。

• In the 1990s the university took over the huge IG Farben Building complex in the Westend district, which had been built for the chemical company and used by the United States Army after 1945.1990 年代，该校接管了城西区庞大的（IG Farben）建筑群，这组建筑原为化工企业所建，1945 年后曾由美国陆军使用。

• From 2001 most departments, with the exception of medicine and the natural sciences, moved to the new Westend campus, and a relocation programme has since aimed at a de facto three-campus university.自 2001 年起，除医学与自然科学之外的多数院系迁入新的城西校区；此后一项搬迁计划的目标是形成实质上的三校区格局。

• The Goethe Business School was established in 2004, part of the House of Finance on the Westend campus, and it is a non-profit foundation held by the university.歌德商学院于 2004 年成立，隶属城西校区的金融之家，是由大学持有的非营利基金会。

• The Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics, worth 50,000 euros, has been awarded every two years since 2005 by the Center for Financial Studies in partnership with the university.金额为 5 万欧元的德意志银行金融经济学奖，自 2005 年起由金融研究中心与该校合作、每两年颁发一次。

• In 2008 the official name was shortened to Goethe University and the House of Finance moved into a new building designed by the architects Kleihues+Kleihues, following the style of the IG Farben Building.2008 年，正式校名简化为歌德大学；同年，金融之家迁入由克莱胡斯建筑事务所设计、沿用（IG Farben）建筑风格的新楼。

• On 30 May 2008 the House of Finance opened on the Westend campus, with a 24-hour reference library and a foyer whose flooring is inspired by Raphael's fresco The School of Athens.2008 年 5 月 30 日，金融之家在城西校区启用，内设 24 小时开放的参考图书馆，其门厅地面图案取自拉斐尔壁画《雅典学院》。

• The university celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2014, and in 2015 Birgitta Wolff became the first woman to serve as its president.该校于 2014 年庆祝建校一百周年；2015 年，布里吉塔·沃尔夫成为该校首位女性校长。

• Enrico Schleiff succeeded Birgitta Wolff as president in 2021, and on 26 September 2016 the university registered the word mark GOETHE UNIVERSITY as an individual trade mark.2021 年，恩里科·施莱夫接替布里吉塔·沃尔夫出任校长；2016 年 9 月 26 日，该校还把「歌德大学」文字标识注册为单独商标。

• A provenance research project launched in 2020 with funding from the German Lost Art Foundation led the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library to return five Nazi-looted books to the Jewish Community of Frankfurt in February 2026, the first such restitution to the local community.2020 年在德国失落艺术品基金会资助下启动的来源研究项目，促成了约翰·克里斯蒂安·森肯贝格大学图书馆于 2026 年 2 月把五册纳粹掠夺书籍归还法兰克福犹太社群，这是该校首次向本地社群归还被掠财产。

• From 2027 the Goethe University, as a member of the Rhine-Main Universities alliance, will take part in the German Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments.自 2027 年起，歌德大学将作为莱茵-美茵大学联盟的成员，参与德国联邦与各州政府推行的卓越战略。

Academics

• The university is organised into 16 faculties, which are law, economics and business administration, social sciences, educational sciences, psychology and sports sciences, Protestant theology, Catholic theology, philosophy and history, linguistics, cultures and arts, modern languages, geosciences and geography, computer science and mathematics, physics, biochemistry, chemistry and pharmacy, biological sciences and medicine.该校设有 16 个学院，分别是法学、经济学与工商管理、社会科学、教育学、心理学与体育学、新教神学、天主教神学、哲学与历史、语言学文化与艺术、现代语文学、地球科学与地理学、计算机科学与数学、物理学、生物化学化学与药学、生物科学，以及医学。

• As of December 2025 the university offered 159 degree programmes and employed 607 professors, 3,929 academic staff and 2,469 administrative and technical staff.截至 2025 年 12 月，该校开设 159 个学位课程，聘有 607 名教授、3929 名学术人员与 2469 名行政技术人员。

• The university's total budget in 2025 amounted to 836.9 million euros, and it holds three endowed professorships, 19 foundation professorships and 11 endowed visiting professorships.该校 2025 年总预算为 8.369 亿欧元，另设有 3 个捐赠教授席位、19 个基金会教授席位与 11 个捐赠客座教授席位。

• Nineteen Nobel laureates and nineteen winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize have been associated with the university since its founding.自建校以来，共有 19 位诺贝尔奖得主与 19 位戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨奖得主与该校相关。

• The university hosts two Excellence Clusters, the Cardio-Pulmonary Institute and SCALE, and it coordinates one LOEWE centre and five LOEWE focus areas in the state of Hesse.该校拥有心血管肺研究所与「SCALE」两个卓越集群，并在黑森州主持一个（LOEWE）研究中心与五个（LOEWE）重点领域。

• Several institutes of the Max Planck Society are co-located with the university, namely the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.马克斯·普朗克学会的数个研究所与该校同址合办，分别是马克斯·普朗克生物物理研究所、马克斯·普朗克脑研究所与马克斯·普朗克欧洲法律史研究所。

• The university is involved in the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence, known as hessian.AI, and works with the neighbouring Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Technical University of Darmstadt in the Rhine-Main Universities alliance.该校参与黑森州人工智能中心（hessian.AI），并与邻近的美茵茨约翰内斯·古腾堡大学及达姆施塔特工业大学共同组成莱茵-美茵大学联盟。

• Research in recent decades has concentrated on law, history and economics, and the university created the Institute for Law and Finance and the Center for Financial Studies to work with Europe's financial centre.近数十年来，该校的研究集中于法学、历史学与经济学；为此设立了法律与金融研究所以及金融研究中心，以便与欧洲金融中心对接。

• The Goethe Business School offers a Master of Business Administration programme in cooperation with the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in the United States, and has partnered with the Indian School of Business since 2009.歌德商学院与美国杜克大学富卡商学院合作开设工商管理硕士项目，并自 2009 年起与印度商学院建立伙伴关系。

• In the 2025/26 winter semester the university enrolled 9,508 students in their first subject semester, and total enrolment stood at 40,684.2025 至 2026 年冬季学期，该校第一专业学期新生为 9508 人，注册学生总数为 40684 人。

• Medicine is taught at the Niederrad campus, where the university hospital has grown since the nineteenth century alongside modern clinical complexes.医学教学设于下环校区，该校附属医院自 19 世纪起在此逐步扩建，与现代化临床设施并存。

• The Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library serves as the central library, while the former Bockenheim campus still houses its historic main building and departmental libraries.约翰·克里斯蒂安·森肯贝格大学图书馆是全校的中心图书馆，而原博肯校区仍保留着它的历史主楼与各分馆。

• The university runs its own Botanical Garden and the Science Garden at Riedberg, which support teaching and research in the life and earth sciences.该校拥有自己的植物园以及理丘校区的科学园，二者共同支撑生命科学与地球科学的教学与研究。

• The university's largest alumni organisation is the Frankfurter Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, founded in 1988, which has more than 1,300 members and is open to the department of economics.该校规模最大的校友组织是 1988 年成立的法兰克福经济学会，拥有 1300 多名会员，面向经济学部开放。

• The university offers a broad profile across the humanities and social sciences, natural and life sciences and medicine, a diversity that the presidential board presents as the basis of its interdisciplinary teaching and research.该校在人文与社会科学、自然科学与生命科学以及医学领域均有广泛布局，校长办公会把这门类的多样性视为其跨学科教学与研究的基础。

• With about 40,000 students expected in the 2026/27 winter semester, including roughly 8,300 first-semester students, the university remains one of the largest in Germany.预计 2026 至 2027 年冬季学期将有约 4 万名学生，其中约 8300 人为第一学期新生，该校仍是德国规模最大的大学之一。

Campus

• Campus Westend is the main campus, where the presidential board is housed in the Presidential and Administration Building and where most departments have been located since 2001.城西校区是主校区，校长办公会设于校长与行政楼，多数院系自 2001 年起迁驻于此。

• The Westend campus is dominated by the IG Farben Building, a modernist New Objectivity landmark designed by the architect Hans Poelzig and opened in October 1930.城西校区的主体建筑是（IG Farben）大楼，这座新即物主义风格的现代主义地标由建筑师汉斯·珀尔齐希设计，于 1930 年 10 月落成启用。

• The Frankfurter Dokumente, the documents that paved the way for the Federal Republic of Germany and its Basic Law, were handed over in the IG Farben Building.为德意志联邦共和国及其基本法奠定基础的《法兰克福文件》，正是在（IG Farben）大楼内移交的。

• Campus Bockenheim was the former centre of the university and still contains parts of the language and cultural sciences, computer science and mathematics and some administration in buildings from the 1950s to the 1970s.博肯校区曾是该校的中心，至今仍容纳部分语言与文化学科、计算机科学与数学以及部分行政单位，所用建筑多建于 1950 年代至 1970 年代。

• Campus Riedberg, whose university buildings date from around 1970, houses physics, biochemistry, chemistry and pharmacy, biosciences and most of the earth sciences.理丘校区的大学建筑约建于 1970 年，容纳物理学、生物化学、化学与药学、生物科学以及大部分地球科学。

• Campus Niederrad is home to the University Hospital and the medical faculty, with buildings that have grown historically since the nineteenth century.下环校区是大学附设医院与医学院的所在地，其建筑自 19 世纪以来逐步扩建形成。

• Campus Ginnheim contains the athletics grounds, several tennis and volleyball courts, the sports halls and the University Sports Centre, and also hosts lectures in physical education and sport psychology.吉恩海姆校区设有田径场、数个网球场与排球场、体育馆以及大学体育中心，并承担体育教育与运动心理学的授课。

• The public Botanical Garden Frankfurt am Main, formerly associated with the biology campus from 1956 to 2011, has been transferred to the city and to the Palmengarten, while parts of the old Bockenheim campus were taken over by the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research.前身自 1956 年至 2011 年服务于生物校区的法兰克福公共植物园已移交市政府与棕榈园；原博肯校区的部分建筑则由森肯贝格自然研究学会接管。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Goethe University is placed 376th, and in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands 193rd.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，歌德大学位列第 376；在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 193。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities it is placed 218th, and in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it falls in the 151-200 band.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 218；在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 151-200 区间。

• In the 2024 QS World University Rankings the university held 302nd place in the world and 18th place nationally.在 2024 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校位列世界第 302、德国第 18。

• In the 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it was positioned between 201st and 250th internationally and 22nd to 24th within Germany.在 2024 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位列世界第 201 至 250 区间，德国第 22 至 24 位。

• The university achieved its highest national position in the 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities, where it stood between 151st and 200th globally and 6th to 9th in Germany.该校在 2023 年世界大学学术排名中取得其国内最佳位次，全球处于第 151 至 200 区间，德国第 6 至 9 位。

• In a 2012 survey reported by The New York Times of the world's universities by employer choice, Goethe University was ranked 10th out of 150 institutions.在《纽约时报》2012 年报道的一项雇主选择世界大学调查中，歌德大学在 150 所高校中排名第 10。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 158,600 research works, reflecting its broad output across the social sciences, natural sciences and medicine.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 158600 项研究成果，体现出其在社会科学、自然科学与医学领域广泛的产出。

• Its standing rests in part on a scientific record that includes 19 Nobel laureates since 1914, among them Max von Laue, Max Born, Paul Ehrlich and Benjamin List.该校的声誉部分建立在自 1914 年以来 19 位诺贝尔奖得主的科研积淀之上，其中包括马克斯·冯·劳厄、马克斯·玻恩、保罗·埃尔利希与本亚明·利斯特。

• The university is a member of the U15 group of leading German research universities and of the Rhine-Main Universities alliance, and from 2027 it takes part in the German Excellence Strategy.该校是德国顶尖研究型大学组织（U15）与莱茵-美因大学联盟的成员，并将自 2027 年起参与德国卓越战略。

Student life

• The university's guiding principle, set out in its Leitbild, is Wissenschaft für die Gesellschaft, science for society.该校在办学纲领中确立的理念是（Wissenschaft für die Gesellschaft），即「科学服务社会」。

• Students are represented by the General Students' Committee, the AStA, which is funded from the student body and runs services and political representation under the Hessian Higher Education Act.学生由全体学生委员会（AStA）代表，其经费来自学生群体，依据黑森州高等教育法提供各类服务并承担学生权益代表职能。

• Recognised political student groups at the university include the RCDS Frankfurt, the JUSO Political University Group, the Green University Group and the Liberale Hochschulgruppe.该校获认可的学生政治团体包括法兰克福（RCDS）、（JUSO）政治学生团体、绿党学生团体与自由派学生团体。

• Participation in student politics is low, with voter turnout in university elections below 15 per cent in recent years.学生对校园政治的参与度不高，近年校选举投票率低于百分之 15。

• New student initiatives are created regularly under the Deutschlandstipendium programme, among them Goethe Speaks Out, Goethe Uni Tour and ExperienceCampus, supported by the presidential board.在德国奖学金计划下，该校定期产生新的学生社团，其中包括（Goethe Speaks Out）、（Goethe Uni Tour）与（ExperienceCampus），并获得校长办公会的支持。

• The university maintains a network of alumni organisations, and its support association acts as an umbrella body for officially recognised groups.该校设有校友组织网络，其支持协会则充当获得正式认可的校友团体的联合机构。

• Many student initiatives and political groups at Goethe University operate as hybrids between student societies and alumni networks, alongside independent alumni bodies of AIESEC, the European Law Students' Association and the Erasmus Student Network.歌德大学的许多学生社团与政治团体兼具学生组织与校友网络的双重属性，此外还有国际经济学商学学生联合会、欧洲法学生协会与伊拉斯谟学生网络等独立校友组织。

• The Ginnheim sports grounds and the University Sports Centre provide athletics, tennis, volleyball and indoor sports for students, and the city of Frankfurt itself, with its museums and financial district, shapes student life.吉恩海姆体育场与大学体育中心为学生提供田径、网球、排球与室内运动场地；法兰克福本市及其博物馆与金融区也深刻影响着校园生活。

Notable people

• Paul Ehrlich, who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and Max von Laue, winner of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics, are counted among the scientists linked to the university.获 1908 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的保罗·埃尔利希，以及获 1914 年诺贝尔物理学奖的马克斯·冯·劳厄，都被列为与该校相关的科学家。

• Max Born, the theoretical physicist awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Otto Stern, who received the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics, worked and taught in Frankfurt.获 1954 年诺贝尔物理学奖的理论物理学家马克斯·玻恩，以及获 1943 年诺贝尔物理学奖的奥托·施特恩，都曾在法兰克福工作与任教。

• Theodor W. Adorno, a professor of philosophy and sociology and a member of the Frankfurt School, and Max Horkheimer, its leading figure, shaped the university's intellectual reputation.身兼哲学与社会学教授、法兰克福学派成员的特奥多尔·W·阿多尔诺，以及该学派的核心人物马克斯·霍克海默，共同塑造了该校的学术声望。

• Jürgen Habermas, one of the most influential philosophers and sociologists of the postwar era, was associated with the university and its Institute for Social Research.战后最具影响力的哲学家与社会学家之一尤尔根·哈贝马斯，曾与该校及其社会研究所保持密切联系。

• Walter Hallstein, who taught law at Frankfurt and served as the first President of the European Commission from 1958 to 1967, is counted among its faculty.曾在法兰克福教授法律、并于 1958 年至 1967 年出任首任欧洲委员会主席的瓦尔特·哈尔斯坦，被列为该校教师。

• Benjamin List, awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on organocatalysis, is among the scientists counted as Nobel laureates of the university.因有机催化研究获 2021 年诺贝尔化学奖的本亚明·利斯特，被列为该校的诺贝尔奖得主之一。

• Reinhard Selten, a graduate of the university, received the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in game theory.该校毕业生赖因哈德·塞尔滕因博弈论研究获得 1994 年诺贝尔经济学奖。

• Hans Bethe, who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on stellar nucleosynthesis, studied at Frankfurt, as did the psychologist Max Wertheimer, a founder of Gestalt psychology.因恒星核合成研究获 1967 年诺贝尔物理学奖的汉斯·贝特曾在法兰克福求学，格式塔心理学创始人之一、心理学家马克斯·韦特海默同样如此。

• Alex Karp, co-founder and chief executive of the software company Palantir Technologies, studied philosophy at Goethe University.软件企业（Palantir Technologies）的联合创始人兼首席执行官亚历克斯·卡普，曾在歌德大学学习哲学。

• Nancy Faeser, federal Minister of the Interior of Germany, and Jürgen Klopp, the football manager who coached Liverpool, are listed among the university's alumni.德国联邦内政部长南希·费泽，以及曾执教利物浦队的足球教练尤尔根·克洛普，都被列为该校校友。

• The philosopher Paul Tillich, the religious thinker Martin Buber and the sociologist Karl Mannheim taught at Frankfurt in the 1920s and early 1930s before the Nazi regime forced them out of their chairs.哲学家保罗·蒂利希、宗教思想家马丁·布伯与社会学家卡尔·曼海姆都曾在 1920 年代至 1930 年代初在法兰克福任教，随后被纳粹政权迫离教席。