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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE REFORMATION logic and natural philosophy, which should have been covered threefold. The institutionalisation of the nominalist way did not come into being. Four of the six extant lectureships, all three Scotist courses*! and the Thomist logica minor, were covered by canons of the Collegiate Church. The rest of the lectures were not in principle bound to particular schools. They included ethics, metaphysics (in actual fact independent rather than combined as proposed in 1508), and, from 1514, mathematics® as well as Latin grammar and classics. The first three courses were based on Aristotle’s works in medieval translation. While the latter two appointments covered three lectureships, since Vach was established to teach both Latin poetry and rhetoric,*’ of the Humanist courses only grammar was a degree requirement. Taken together, all but three of the twelve lectureships (counting Vach’s dual appointment as two) in 1516 were scholastic in nature, and they included all of the relatively well-funded (endowed) chairs. At this stage, Humanism played a decidedly auxiliary role (Table 5). In terms of academic orientation, scholasticism was also the order of the day in the theology faculty. In addition to the disputations, there were only three regular theological lecture courses on offer in 1516.** The Augustinians’ Biblical professorship was outnumbered by those of their scholastic colleagues, and the bulk of the courses, including graduate students’ required exposition of the Sentences, also represented the high medieval tradition. Nor should the Biblical chair be considered, in and of itself, any evidence for a ‘Fore-Reformation’ drive; it was a regular arrangement. Before Luther, there seems to have been no significant impulse to reform theology at Wittenberg.* In the same year, there was still only one chair in medicine” (Table 6). 3! Given the stability and financial security of these endowed positions, this is a clear sign of the general pre-eminence of Scotism at Wittenberg. 2 UBW 1:73-74 (No. 54). 33 That is clear not only from the longevity of his double coverage (1503-1521, after which he continued to teach poetry for another twenty years), but also from his increased salary whereby for the two classes he received time and a half the usual remuneration for masters in the Arts faculty, which was supplemented by the university to bring it to a full double salary (UBW 1:77, No. 57). He in fact held two lectures a day, poetry at 8 am and rhetoric at 4 pm (ibid.). The same arrangement, including lecture times and salary, was confirmed in 1517 (UBW 1:84, No. 63). By contrast, Bonifatius Erasmi de Rode, a.k.a. Master Zörbig (c.1480-1560) did not receive dual income for his coverage of astronomy and mathematics (UBW 1:78, No. 57). Indeed he only delivered a single lecture a day, at 2 pm (ibid.). 34 UBW 1:77 (No. 57). 35 BRECHT, Luther, vol. 1, 120-121; cf. SCHEIBLE, Aristoteles, 126. 36 UBW 1:77 (No. 57). + 19 +
