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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE REFORMATION the institutional relevance of scholastic learning, were not yet modified. Ihat came in later steps. Once the old system had collapsed under pressure Írom faculty and the weight of shifting student interests, lectureships could be cancelled. Very little of the original curriculum survived this stage. Ihe only course already taught in 1507 and still in place in 1536 was Latin poetry." Mathematics, established somewhat later, also showed great resilience. Rhetoric and physics survived with some changes, and, after much reshuffling, even logic found a much reduced but renewed place in the curriculum (Table 16). These continuities should not hide the basic fact that scholasticism lost its ground and Humanist scholarship made tremendous advances, which is most visible in the strong coverage of the three languages, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Table 16 Overview of regular professorships in the Faculty of Arts (1507-1536) App. Chair 1507 1516 1518 1521 1525 15367 11 Greater logic Scotist Scotist Scotist 11 Greater logic Thomist Thomist Thomist 14 b)-c) Natural philo- Scotist Scotist Scotist sophy 14 b)-c) Natural philo- Thomist Thomist Thomist sophy 11 Lesser logic Scotist Scotist Scotist Scotist 11 Lesser logic Thomist Thomist Thomist Thomist 14b) De coelo et Scotist mundo etc. 14b) De coelo et Thomist mundo etc. 3 a) Ethics Scholastic Scholastic n. d. No. 10*** 13 Metaphysics Scholastic Scholastic see physics 12[b] Mathematics Scholastic filled filled filled No.5 [higher] 12 a) Lower metha- seehigher filled No.6 matics math. 6 Grammar Humanist Humanist Humanist filled 2 Grammar and No. 4 Terence 2 Latin poetry Humanist Humanist Humanist filled filled No.3 20 Rhetoric [Humanist]* Humanist Humanist see Latin No. 8 poetry 77 Incidentally, still taught by the same Balthasar Vach, one of the longest-serving professors in the first half-century of the Leucorea.
