 Amerbach from 1530 to 1532 he was in the Senate of the art department of the University of Wittenberg and in the winter semester 1538/39 he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and was after 1529 professor at Pädagogium and from 1535 Professor of Physics.Luther and Gregory Brück sent him in 1541 in the Saxon Consistory of Wittenberg to participate in the sovereign government of the Church.When in-depth study of the church fathers Amerbach came to a different conclusion, so that disagreements arose to Reformation ideas, particularly with regard to the doctrine of justification and of the papal primacy.