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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 metaphysics, 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 independent 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 differentiated 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). + 29e
