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Book/Printed Material Opening Proclamation from University Authorities Prior to an Academic Term.

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Title

  • Opening Proclamation from University Authorities Prior to an Academic Term.

Summary

  • The University of Vienna was founded by Duke Rudolph IV of Austria in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. As at other European universities, the primary language of scholarship was Latin. This proclamation in Latin is by Petrus Muchitsch, a classical philologist and theologian who twice served as rector of the university, in 1577--78 and again in 1578. In this greeting, Petrus invites the students of the university to resume their studies following the end of the 1578 epidemic of plague in Vienna. Printed in the form of a broadside, the document includes one of the oldest surviving lecture schedules of the university, listing courses in the Faculty of Theology, the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Law, and the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Philosophy, and Languages, and indicating which courses were for baccalaureate students and masters students separately, and which were joint lectures.

Names

  • Muchitsch, Peter, flourished 1572-1590 Author.

Created / Published

  • Vienna, Austria : Stephanus Creuzer, 1578.

Headings

  • -  Austria--Vienna
  • -  1578
  • -  Broadsides
  • -  Courses and lectures
  • -  Plague
  • -  Proclamations
  • -  Universität Wien
  • -  Universities and colleges

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource at: Austrian National Library.
  • -  Content in Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666751

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  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Muchitsch, Peter, Flourished Author. Opening Proclamation from University Authorities Prior to an Academic Term. Vienna, Austria: Stephanus Creuzer, 1578. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666751/.

APA citation style:

Muchitsch, P. (1578) Opening Proclamation from University Authorities Prior to an Academic Term. Vienna, Austria: Stephanus Creuzer. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666751/.

MLA citation style:

Muchitsch, Peter, Flourished Author. Opening Proclamation from University Authorities Prior to an Academic Term. Vienna, Austria: Stephanus Creuzer, 1578. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666751/>.