Excerpt from The Biblical Repertory and Theological Review, Vol. 8: Conducted by an Association of Gentlemen in Princeton; January, 1836In 1792, the younger Rosenmuller obtained the privilege of a Privatim Docens in the Leipzig University. To those who are not familiar with the organization of foreign institu tions, we may state that there are three ranks of authorised teachers in a German University. A regular graduate who exhibits acquirements and abilities of a reputable order, is, on complying with certain formal requisitions, admitted to the station of a Privatim Docens. The qualifying adverb in this title has reference, not at all to the method of instruo tion, which is always as public as advertisements can make it, but to the fact that the teacher so entitled is not an ofi'ice bearer of the University, but as yet a mere adventurer, for whom the learned body is in no respect responsible, but who is merely permitted to try his luck under their protection. After years of experiment, the Privatim Docens sometimes succeeds in establishing a character, and receives invitations to remove. This, in the majority of cases, is the actual event, which accounts for the migratory lives of the German literati, till they at last obtain a permanent establishment. If the reputation of the teacher, however, has become so far connected with that of his University, that his loss would be felt, or that his presence is important, he is promoted to the rank of a Professor Extraordinarius.

He is now a part of the University, though he has no seat in any faculty, and depends for his subsistence on his fees alone. It isonly those whose services are looked upon as highly important, and whose names are names of renown, that can expect to attain the rank and the emolument of a P. P. 0. (professor Publicus 0r dinarius) in any University of the better sort. Whatever may be said in opposition to this system, it certainly has the merit of providing for the perpetual succession of professors, and the filling of vacated chairs, not with novices or Upstarts or universal geniuses (so called) but with men who have served long years of study and improvement, as apprentices and journeymen, before they even dream of setting up as masters.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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