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GÁBOR ITTZÉS
Table 8 Overview of the number of regular professorships by faculty and source of
funding (1516)
Funding Theology Law Medicine Arts Total
All Saints’ 2 4 4 10
Augustinians 1 1 2
Elector/University 3 1 78 11
Total 3 7 1 12 23
HUMANIST REFORMS AND THEIR AFTERMATH (1518-1520)
The breakthrough came in the winter semester of 1517-1518.” In the spring
of 1518,*° the Elector established seven new chairs in the Faculty of Arts.”
Three of them were given to the study of Aristotle textualiter secundum novam
translationem, and the stipulated new translations were those of Humanist
scholarship. The three lectureships include (1) logic, (2) physics and metaphys¬
ics, and (3) zoology. The latter is to be read in yearly alternation with Quintilian.
Our sources are rather reticent. Physics and metaphysics were surely meant in
tandem, but De animalibus and Quintilian may have been intended as two in¬
dependent chairs in principle, although they were de facto combined in the first
appointment.” Metaphysics, physics, and natural philosophy had already been
included in the curriculum, the latter two read in both a Thomist and a Scotist
way, although metaphysics was not bound to a via. What is now established,
however, is not a new scholastic way, e.g. the missing nominalist via specified
in the 1508 statues, but a Humanist alternative.
The remaining four positions confirm the same. Two of them, also filled
in the spring of 1518, were assigned to the pedagogium, to teach elementary
38 Counting Vach’s two chairs separately. In the literature, professorships are usually treated
by the number of incumbents. That would reduce this figure by one, bringing the total to
11 for the faculty and to 22 for the university. Note that Andreas Bodenstein von Carlstadt
(c.1480-1541), professor of theology, was also absent in 1516, and his lectureship was covered
by Nicolaus von Amsdorf (1483-1565), who also delivered his regular classes on Aristotelian
logic secundum viam Scoti (UBW 1:77, No. 57). Those two positions are self-evidently differ¬
entiated in the literature.
% On the Humanist reforms of Wittenberg University, see, in addition to sources cited in n. 2
above, OZMENT, Steven, The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History
of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe, New Haven — London, Yale University Press, 1980,
309-317.
10 For the dating to the end of March or April, see SCHEIBLE, Aristoteles, 131n.
41 UBW 1:85-86 (No. 64).
12 The Aristotelian half of the chair was discontinued after 1521 as it was made redundant by the
lectureship on Pliny’s zoology (UBW 1:100, No. 82, 1:118, No. 109; cf. KATHE, Philosophische
Fakultät, 56 and App. 17, 18, 21).
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