1. Beginnings in the 16th and 17th centuries
The teaching magistri of the medieval universities were not Privatdozenten. Like later Privatdozenten, they did not hold endowed positions on the faculties and lectured only for fees. Their teaching, however, was not private but public and part of the curriculum [18]. The Privatdozenten (Latin privatim docentes) were instead an invention of the 16th-centur…