Oberhausen and Pozzo concur with Mordechai Feingold’s description of the difficulties that face scholars attempting to reconstruct university courses of studies. A discrepancy exists between the prescribed official curriculum and what was actually taught. The editors clarify course offerings by identifying who taught at Königsberg, listing textbooks and their success as indicated by the number of times used, and noting authors or books rarely or not included. Even beyond the university reform of 1771, the Albertina had four faculties: the three (...) higher faculties of law and theology followed by medicine, together with the lower faculty of philosophy: essentially, arts and sciences. Philosophy so defined provided preparatory studies for the three higher faculties. (shrink)