Goethe-Gymnasium, Frankfurt
Goethe-Gymnasium is a secondary school in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. It is situated near the Hauptbahnhof.
It is currently the only state funded school in Germany that offers students the option of taking International Baccalaureate examination. However, contrary to the IBO's IB programme, the final exam is offered in year 13, not year 12.
The Goethe-Gymnasium offers Japanese as a third foreign language, which is rare in Germany.
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[edit] History
The Städtisches Gymnasium was founded in 1520, and split into the Goethe-Gymnasium and the Lessing-Gymnasium in 1897. Both schools thereby claim the distinction of descending directly from the city's oldest school.
In 1969, it became the first school in Hesse to offer bilingual lessons, which were in German and English.
[edit] School exchange visits
The Goethe-Gymnasium operates a program of exchange visits with partner schools in the following countries:
[edit] Notable alumni
- Hans Bethe, physicist
- Michel Friedman, politician
- Richard Goldschmidt, geneticist
- Erich Klibansky, headmaster
- Thor Kunkel, author
- Kurt Lipstein, legal scholar
- Leo Löwenthal, sociologist
- Christine Schäfer, soprano
- Britta Böhler, Member of the Dutch Senate and lawyer
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Coordinates: 50°06′40″N 8°39′31″E / 50.11111°N 8.65861°E
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