Doctor cerevisiae
Doctor cerevisiae ("Doctor of Beer") and Doctor cerevisiae et vini ("Doctor of Beer and Wine") are titles that are awarded at some connections in the context of the student pub . You will u. a. Awarded as an honorary title to particularly experienced or deserving liaison members in Austria. They are to be distinguished from the beer doctor, in the sense of temporary, parodistically awarded titles in the so-called beer state . In both cases, beyond the humorous aspect, as a so-called hidden curriculum, they belong to the specific and important celebration culture for corporations in German-speaking countries.
Historical background
In the second half of the 18th century, it was the custom in Jena to do a doctorate in the local inn there. It met its own beer faculty. At their head was a dean who had to maintain his place when the other members were already under the table. A new candidate had to choose three opponents from the solemn round of all Doctores cerevisiae, after the dean's welcome , whom he had to drink as much beer as they drank to him. If he passed this test, he was chosen to be Doctor cerevisiae and from now on was allowed to write the symbols of his dignity in the family books: DC and below that Neb Doctor cerevisiae - nunc est bibendum! (Now you have to drink). The real doctorate was caricatured here in a fun way. From this developed in the 19th century. the custom that especially hard-drinking couleur students subjected themselves to the examination for the doctor of beer proficiency. This doctor also found its way into the “Allgemeine Deutsche Biercomment ” published by Reclam in 1899.
As early as 1848, the beer doctor appeared in Johann Grässlis - under the telling pseudonym J. Vollmann - Burschicosem dictionary, not as a permanent institution, but as someone who has to maintain the beer comment during a pub and does it more or less seriously. Names like Comes palatii (Count Palatine in allusion to Friedrich IV. ), First Beer Councilor or Beer Doctor were also widespread .
Introduction to the Catholic corporations in Austria
This custom was introduced into the circles of Catholic corporations in Austria by a veteran of Austria in Innsbruck. This is Carl Domanig from Sterzing in South Tyrol, who was formulated on October 24, 1870 and who had already advanced to the senior position of the oldest CV connection in Austria in the winter semester of 1871. In 1873 he summarized his thoughts on the legitimacy of this connection in a brochure "A 'Catholic' Fraternity" in the form of a dispute with a corps Philistine. The Tyrolean literary historian Anton Dörrer (1886–1968, rec. At “Austria” 1907) describes him in his 1924 work “Karl Domanig als Student” as follows:
With his lively, programmatic poetry and kettledrum he caused a sensation at the festive events. The new Austriasenior also stood out because of his appearance: how the brisk student in Flaus, Koller and Kanonen, with the self-invented so-called star cap, shining with its gold rays, wandered through the streets of the city of the Muses, pressed into his black hair, that with him the old student romance from the time of the sunken German fraternity is renewed.
Karl Domanig acquired the title of "Doctor cerevisiae" according to the "Constitutio de Doctoratu" in 1873 according to the records in the land register of "Austria".
In his "Pandekten", which are now kept in the archive of the Welfia Klosterneuburg (where he has lived since 1893), he wrote this constitution:
“The Candidatus has to present the Commissioni a dissertation in the form of a strictly beer-learned thesis; item should include the same treatise about 100 to 150 versus, or evenly in prosa strictissime 1001 word. "If the" approval of the dissertationes for over "follows" Drey Rigorosa ": The" Rigorosum juridico-historicum "includes" a) Statuta, Commentum along with the attached Commentario. ”“ B) Annales. ”“ C) Cartel statutes and history. ”In the“ highly embarrassing rigorosum ”the candidate must prove to have endured at least a dozen beer scandals and“ coram populo ”(which means the Kneipleith ) To dismiss a duel tournament or armed conflict in the usual pub with all and any persona of the Commisionis; wherever he should swallow at least one victoriously. ”In the“ Colloquium fidelitatis ”he has to handle the presidium“ in an absurd ex-pub; ... item will be read out as a beer newspaper to replace everyone ”. He has three horns to donate to the Corona and "then in a beer charge he should act as a judge and ultimately let himself be demoted to Scheyßfuxen". For the 1st and 2nd Rigorosum the candidate has to pay an estimate of one silver guilder each, but he is entitled to the doctoral diploma free of charge. Section 11 of this constitution already shows a possibility that later became common practice: "The boys' conventus has the right to appoint honorary doctorates if they belong to the Cartel Association."
Role today
Today, the “real” Doctor cerevisiae, i.e. the wet-tested one, has largely disappeared and is less known outside of Austria. The Austrian Catholic corporations have kept the custom of awarding this title as a special honor to particularly deserving federal brothers. When the “vini” and the wine were added to the “cerevisa” with the beer is not understandable. Eduard Chaloupka , lawyer and founding boy of the Catholic student association KAV Bajuvaria Vienna in the ÖCV , already stated in 1935 in a beer comment for the association that the Dr. Cerevisiae represent the highest honor of the Bajuvaria for deserving members. The corresponding members should be absolutely sure of their feet when it comes to commentary , with some associations it is customary to use Doctores cerevisae preferably for fuxen or boy exams.
The title is distributed in a quite inflationary way in some connections and also benefits honorary members or other public brothers who have rarely been seen in a pub . In the Corps, every exaggerated beer comment tends to be buxy , only the temporary establishment of a so-to-speak beer impartial among beer boys occasionally occurs and is underpinned by correspondingly martial announcements, which Dr. Cerevisiae as an honorary title, on the other hand, is not in use.
In an overview article on the university as a way of life in Rüdiger vom Bruch's book on the German university landscape , Matthias Stickler emphasizes the essential role of literally driving student associations as part of a secret curriculum . In the Anglo-Saxon area, education and habitus formation took place in the university; the American fraternities and sororities are also closely committed to the university and are under its supervision. In contrast to the English-speaking colleges, Humboldt's concept of the university postponed such aspects of the education and habit formation of the students outside the university. In the German-speaking area this took place for a long time on the model or within student associations and, in contrast to the Anglo-Saxon area, was obliged to self-educate young men. Beer promotions, honorary degrees and the associated rituals, the occasional beer-loving strolling has very tangible backgrounds. Like other student customs, according to Stickler, they are currently mostly to be found in folkloric illustrated books, but a modern cultural-scientific approach, such as a closer study of connections in general, is (as of 2010) as important as a significant research gap.
Remarks
- ↑ Carl Domanig (April 3, 1851, † December 9, 1913); received his doctorate in Innsbruck on May 4, 1871 as Dr. He saw himself primarily as a poet and wrote poetry during his youth, and later also stories, novels and dramas. After completing their studies, initially taught more than 20 children from the imperial family in the history of art and literature, including the later heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. In 1884 he was appointed curator-adjunct, in 1887 curator and finally in 1900 director of the coin and antiquities cabinet of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Individual evidence
- ^ Golücke, Friedhelm: Student Dictionary; Edited by the German Society for Student History, Würzburg 1987.
- ↑ Gerlach, A. (Ed.): General German Beer Comment. Leipzig, Reclam jun., (1899); see. also MKV (ed.): Der Comment, Vienna 1980 and 2012
- ↑ a b Burschicose's dictionary: or: Explanation of all customs, expressions, words, idioms and comments that occur in student life, together with an indication of the corps J. Vollmann Unteregger, which exists at all universities, 1846
- ^ Library of the historical German language for students and pupils. 19th century dictionaries on German student language. - Helmut Henne, Georg Objartel, Heidrun Kämper-Jensen Walter de Gruyter, 1984, page 134
- ↑ Exner, Ernst in Acta studentica - Austrian Journal for Student History, Volume 173 [1]
- ↑ Living for people and faith: Festschrift for Eduard Chaloupka Eduard Chaloupka, Nicolaus Drimmel, NWV - Neuer Wiss. Verl., 2002 - page 234
- ↑ a b c d The Berlin University in the context of the German university landscape after 1800, around 1860 and around 1910 Rüdiger vom Bruch Oldenbourg Verlag, July 7, 2010.