On the question of authorship in "Academical Dissertations" : a paper read at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Library Association of the United Kingdom, Sept. 15, 1881 / by Benjamin R. Wheatley.

  • Wheatley, Benjamin Robert.
Date:
1883
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    chiore Sebizio:' 1621, which are printed as by Sebizius, but in each of the disputa- tions the dedication is signed by the respondent, and the respondents speak of the theses as the first fruits of their studies. There are, indeed, so many of these dissertations in which the construction of the title is the same whether a prseses is mentioned or not, and with the word auctor sometimes following the name of the defendant, sometimes that of the re- spondent, that there can be little doubt that one of the latter must be considered the author, in all cases where auctor does not follow the name of the prseses. When a collection of theses or disserta- tions is published under the name of a prseses as his opera, such as in the case of Sebizius, Richter, Roederer and others, it is merely in a secondary sense from his