As an ecclesiastical corporation the university took an active part in the Councils of Pisa (1409), Constance (1414), and Basle (1431), and in several provincial synods. An address of loyalty (rotulus) was sent to each newly-elected pope with a request for the confirmation and increase of the privileges. Stephen's, who was chancellor of the university and conferred the academic degrees.ĭuring the first century of its existence the university repeatedly proved that it was founded as an institution of the Church chiefly for the extension and defence of the Faith. The permanent ecclesiastical representative of the university was the cathedral provost of St. The university was subject to the ruler of the country, who was its patron, but otherwise it was autonomous and had its own jurisdiction. Each "nation" elected a proctor from its membership the head of the university was the rector elected semi-annually by the proctors, while his council was composed of the proctors and the deans of the faculties. All members of the university, scholars, bachelors, licentiates (who were obliged to lecture for a certain period), and doctors, were divided into "nations", Austrian, Rhenish, Hungarian, and Saxon.
After the drawing up of the university statutes in 1385, and of the statutes of the faculties of theology, law, medicine, and philosophy on 1 April, 1389, the organization of the university on the model of Paris was complete. About 1380 his successor, Albert III, called teachers from Paris and obtained permission from Urban VI, 20 Feb., 1384, for the establishment of a theological faculty. The school, planned on too large a scale and not sufficiently endowed, did not prosper moreover the duke died on 27 July at Milan. It was founded on 12 March, 1365, by Rudolph IV, Duke of Austria, and its charter confirmed on 18 July of the same year by Urban V, a faculty of theology not being included in the papal authorization.
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