“The question of determining authorship of these disputations has eluded – and continues to elude – a clear and universally accepted answer. Towards the end of the 19th century, German catalogers began to intensively discuss the question of whether the presider or the respondent should be listed as the author of any given disputation; since then, a number of scholars have addressed this same issue. The following conjecture will be ventured here: there is no simple correct answer, […].” (Freedman 2005, 32f)