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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE REFORMATION The highest ranking (and best paid) jobs remain the professorships in Biblical languages (Table 14). Table 14 Regular professorships in the Faculty of Arts (1536) App. No.* Chair Salary 8 1 Hebrew 100 gl. 7 & 19** 2 Greek (also rhetorician) 100 gl. 2 3 Poetry 80 gl. 2 & 19** 4 Terence and grammar (also rhetorician) 80 gl. 12 a)-b) 5-6 Mathematics (lower and higher) 80 gl. 11 & 19** 7 Dialectic (also declamations) 80 gl. 20 & 19** 8 Rhetoric (also declamations) 80 gl. 16 9 Physics 80 gl. 3b) 10 Moral philosophy 80 gl. 15 11 Elementary Latin/Greek/Hebrew 40 gl. * In the list of the Fundationsurkunde (UBW 1:177, No. 193). **See n. 74. The four positions in the theological faculty we saw in Melanchthon’s statutes of 1533 are essentially kept although only three are termed professorships. The first two have a full teaching load, while the third only a half, because the incumbent is also required to preach. In exchange, the town preacher has to offer lectures at the university, to make up for the missing half-load. All theology is essentially Biblical; the role of patristics in the curriculum is weaker than in Melanchthon’s statutes. The law school had four professorships, including, as second in rank, canon law. The reintroduction of ecclesiastical jurisprudence was a result of the recognition of its indispensability in marriage and inheritance matters. As before, law professors were required to assume court duties as well. The medical school received a third lectureship, dedicated to anatomy. Overall, theologians remain the most highly paid among the faculty (Table 15). Quarterly disputations, on top of those needed for graduation, in each of the higher faculties and bi-weekly disputations and declamations in the Faculty of Arts, are prescribed in addition to the daily routine of regular lectures, the consistent performance of which is strictly enjoined upon all faculty. The necessary funding is provided by the dissolution of the (previously secularised) All Saints’ endowment and the permanent incorporation of all its incomes into the university finances. + 33 +
