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GÁBOR ITTZÉS is now much more balanced than the year before. In the medical faculty, one full professorship is established in practical medicine, but a junior position is also created in speculative medicine? (Table 4). Table 4 Regular professorships established in the higher faculties (1508) Faculty Chair Funding or branch of law No. of chairs Theology Not specified Augustinians 1 Theology Not specified Franciscans 1 Theology Not specified All Saints’ 3 Law Not specified All Saints’ 1 Law Codex and Digest Romanlaw 2 Law Sixth Book and Clementinae Canon law 1 Law Institutiones Roman law 1 Law Decretals Canon law 1 Law Decretum Canon law 1 Medicine Practical medicine Elector 1 Medicine Speculative medicine Elector 1 Total 14 The 1508 proposal, however, remained to some extent just that. It was more grandiose than a university of about 200 students would warrant. It nevertheless gives an accurate picture of the founders’ vision for the university and, together with the actual facts of 1507 recorded in the Rotulus, reveals a fairly typical late medieval institution of higher learning. ON THE EVE OF THE REFORMATION (1516) In 1516, Wittenberg University employed twenty-two permanent faculty members, half of them in the Faculty of Arts.*? Law professors had much higher salaries than members of the other faculties: typically twice as much as the professor of medicine, and up to eight times as much as lecturers in the Arts faculty." This is also an indication of the leading role assigned to the law school. The ambitious plan of the 1508 statutes was never fully realised. There were only two sets of lectures — a Scotist and a Thomist — on the core subjects of UBW 1:49 (No. 25). The teaching plans for both lectureships are worked out in great detail (ibid. p. 50), but their discussion would lead us too far afield. The second position was not filled until 1518 (cf. UBW 1:86-87, Nos. 65, 67). 29 UBW 1:77-78 (No. 57). On the twelve lectureships at the Arts faculty, see below. 30 UBW 1:77-78 (No. 57). Cf. KATHE, Philosophische Fakultät, p. 28. See also Table 5 and Table 6. +18 +
