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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE REFORMATION THE COLLAPSE OF THE OLD Ways (EARLY 1520s) The old system finally caved in around the time of Luther’s exile in the Wartburg. Scholastic lectures became deserted and were discontinued. Scotist natural philosophy had ended in 1519 as had the Thomist greater logic in 1520. The next year saw the termination of their counterparts, Thomist natural philosophy and Scotist greater logic® (Table 10). Table 10 Discontinuation of old professorships in the Faculty of Arts App. Chair Continuation Date 14c) Natural phil. (Scotist) Discontinued 1519 11 Greater logic (Thomist) Discontinued 1520 11 Greater logic (Scotist) Greater logic (no via) (App. 11) 1520/1521 14c) Natural phil. (Thomist) Discontinued 1520/1521 11 Logic (new translation) Elements of logic and rhetoric (App. 11) 1521 20 Rhetoric Elements of logic and rhetoric (App. 11) 1521 21 Zoology (Aristotle) Discontinued (Pliny, App. 17) 1521 11 Lesser logic (Thomist) Elements of logic and rhetoric (App. 11) 1521/1522 11 Lesser logic (Scotist) Elements of logic and rhetoric (App. 11) 1522 3 a) Ethics (Nicomachean) Discontinued 1522 or earlier 11 Greater logic (no via) Discontinued 1523 16 Physics (new translation) Discontinued (reorganised in 1535) 1523 6 Latin Grammar Elementary Latin/etc. (App. 15) 1523/1524 13 Metaphysics Logic (Dialectic) (App. 11) 1525 After intensive negotiations between the Elector and the university in June 1521, the lecture rota was heftily redefined. Further lectures were discontinued or reshaped. Aristotle’s zoology and logic (based on a new translation) as well as Vach’s rhetoric chair were all eliminated in the process. New classes were also introduced. The logic of the viae, slowly dying out, was replaced in 1520 by a new lectureship on the same topic not bound to any school," to which now a new course was added on the elements of logic and rhetoric, substituting for the Humanist course established in 1518. Greek grammar was offered on least on the average of half-decade figures. JUNGHANS, Wittenberg fold-out diagram after 224. Cf. Luck, Juristenfakultat, 78. 52 Cf.n. 46, above. What Kathe (Philosophische Fakultat,71., and App. 11) takes to be anew chair in greater logic after the discontinuation of the Scotist lectureship (cf. UBW 1:100, No. 82), Scheible (Aristoteles, 134-135.) interprets as a continuation of the Thomist lectureship. The sources are not specific enough to settle the matter. I follow Kathe here. 53 UBW 1:111-119. (Nos 103-109). 54 Cf. n. 52, above.
