Scientific society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
| Scientific society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main | |
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| founding | 1906 |
| Sponsorship | autonomous |
| place | Frankfurt am Main , Germany |
| president | Herbert Zimmermann |
| Website | Scientific society at the University of Frankfurt |
The Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main is a non-university, legal association of scholars, which serves the maintenance of the sciences . It is based at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . The members are academics working at Goethe University and other Frankfurt academic institutions as well as scholars from other universities. Society encompasses all areas of science and is not divided into classes.
history
The Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main emerged from the Strasbourg Scientific Society during the time of the German Empire . This was founded in 1906 by professors from the German University of Strasbourg ( Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität ), which was newly established in 1872 .
After the First World War and the closure of the university, the old German professors had to leave Alsace . After a temporary move to Heidelberg , the place of residence of her co-founder Harry Bresslau , who was chairman of the society from 1911 until his death in 1926, she moved to Frankfurt am Main in order to find the university connection that is usual for science academies with the local university founded in 1914 . The University of Heidelberg was already by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences occupied. The move was only legally completed in 1931. In that year, the Frankfurt physician and naturalist Albrecht Bethe was elected the first chairman of the Frankfurt era of the society. After 1933 the company got into a difficult situation, the chairman and board of directors had to resign. Since 1937 it has been headed by the Nazi rector of Frankfurt University, the new historian Walter Platzhoff . Notwithstanding this, the society managed to ensure that its numerous Jewish members were never officially excluded. Most of the company's records were lost during World War II . It was reconstituted at the end of 1945. In 1947 the new name used today was adopted. Following the ideal of its beginnings, society has never split into a humanities and a natural science class.
tasks
By regularly organizing meetings with scientific lectures and subsequent discourse, the Scientific Society cultivates the conversation between the various scientific disciplines. It also organizes public lectures and symposia and issues publications that can be aimed at scientific laypeople, politicians and specialists. In addition to the Goethe University, the society also cooperates with other universities and supports scientific ventures, including those of non-members. It is in exchange with six domestic and foreign science academies.
Web links
literature
- Peter Herde: 75 years of the Scientific Society. An outline of their history. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1991, Festschrift of the Scientific Society at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden . ISBN 3-515-03587-7
- Directory of the company's publications since 1994
Members
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter J. Herde: 75 years of scientific society. An outline of their history. . Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-515-03587-7 , pp. 1-53.