Die Wittenberger Scripta publice proposita (1540-1569): Universitatsbekanntmachungen im Umfeld des spaten Melanchthon

In the second half of the 16th century the University of Wittenberg regularly published its so-called Scripta publice proposita in printed volumes. These announcements, originally published on the university's bulletin board, document curricular offerings, humanistic-reformational concerns, notices of the deaths of members of the university, the daily life of students and scholarly communication at the Leucorea during the mature phase of the Reformation. After the death of Philipp Melanchthon, who like no other shaped and distributed the genre to a wider public, an intense effort to keep Melanchthon's memory alive took form in the official announcements, which highlighted him as a leading figure of Wittenberg University and the Reformation and defended him against hostile attacks. The extensive catalogues index the multi-volume text corpus of the Wittenberg Scripta publice proposita for the first time and also record further related announcements from printed and handwritten sources.