The German universities for the last fifty years / by Dr. J. Conrad, authorized translation by John Hutchinson and a preface by James Bryce.

  • Johannes Conrad
Date:
1885
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    day a large number of tlie teachers and directors of the gymnasia in that State have proceeded wholly from the theological faculty. There is no denying the fact, deplore it as we may, that the students no longer regard it as an advantage to belong to the theological faculty. No one now enters that faculty unless with the intention of becoming a clergyman or for the study of theology. From this cause alone the number of theological students was bound to go down in the course of the fifty years, and that of the members of the philosophical faculty to increase. To account for the phenomenon it is not necessary to assume any change in the inclination of our youth to the profession in question, nor to argue from the diminution in the number of students of theology at the university to a want or a corresponding diminution in the number of clergymen. Still, such a want of candidates for the clerical office was undoubtedly felt at the beginning of tlie seventies. Ernesti,in his excellent work* on this subject, comes to the conclusion that in 1875 no such want as that above referred to existed in the following parts of Germany:—Saxony, Wurtemberg, Baden, in the consistorial circles t of Kiel, Wiesbaden, Kassel, Birkenfeld, Eeuss a. L., and Schwartz- burg-Sondershausen. The author gives the following proofs. The Eoyal examining commissjon| of students of theplogy at Leipzig admitted the following as probationers:— 1834-43. ’44-53. ’57-63. ’64-73. 582 333 334 448 And while from 1863-74 there were 372 vacancies, there were 448 licentiates to supply them. The supply was thus abundantly equal to the demand, and in the thirties there Uber die Abnahme der Theologie-Studierenden. Stuttgart, 1875. t [See Appendix, Note 3.] J [See Appendix, Note 4.] F