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GÁBOR ITTZÉS Table 12 Regular professorships in the Faculty of Arts (1525) App. Chair Salary 7 Greek 60 gl. 8 Hebrew 60 gl. 18 & 19 Quintilian (also rhetorician) 60 gl. 11&19 Elements of logic and rhetoric (also rhetorician) 60 gl. 2 Poetry 40 gl. 12 Mathematics 40 gl. 16 Physics 30 gl. 15 Elementary Latin/Greek/Hebrew 30 gl. In terms of academic positions, the changes well underway by 1521 have now been completed. The exact number of professorships is not entirely clear, but we are largely back at (or slightly below) the pre-reform level of 1516 with twelve’ chairs—but with what a difference in terms of teaching content! All scholastic chairs were gone by 1525 (metaphysics apparently cancelled that year). Practically nothing remained of the lectureships that had built the backbone of undergraduate training barely ten years before. And some more recent experiments had also been abandoned. One of the pedagogical positions had been struck; attempts to renew the grammatical professorship were ultimately abandoned and the chair given up. On the other hand, two rhetoricians were now established, even if they were chosen from within the faculty and did not increase the number of appointees. Overall, a completely new curriculum had been developed, at the heart of which stood the study of languages, not only Latin but also Greek and Hebrew. It was also supplemented by a fair doze of natural sciences® (Table 12). Structural changes were less dramatic in the higher faculties, but the content of teaching was also altered there. Medicine now had two professorships. The number of faculty in the law school slightly declined from 1516, but the big change was that all five instructors were Roman lawyers. Canon law had not been taught since the early 1520s in Wittenberg. The reversal of the balance between the secular and ecclesiastical branches of law, observable since the university’s inception, had thus reached its logical conclusion. The intellectual driving force of the high school was now visibly located in the theology °° Melanchthon was not bound to any professorship with a definite content, but he did teach; Premsel was still on the faculty list albeit without a teaching assignment, and there might have been some doubling beyond the dual appointments of the rhetoricians. 67 Cf. n. 38, above. 68 Instead of lecturing on Quintilian, Johannes Longicampianus (c.1495-1529) in fact taught lower mathematics from 1525 until his death. * 30°
