section_path: Later life, ministry, and the Reformation/University of Wittenberg
section_name: University of Wittenberg
paragraph_text: University of Wittenberg
  
  On 21 October 1512, Luther was received into the senate of the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg, succeeding von Staupitz as chair of theology. He spent the rest of his career in this position at the University of Wittenberg.
  
  In 1515, he was made provincial vicar of Saxony and Thuringia, which required him to visit and oversee eleven monasteries in his province.