NIETZSCHE'S THIRD PUBLICATION

NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH.

Beiträge zur Kritik der griechischen Lyriker. [Extract from: Rheinishes Museum für Philologie, Vol. XXIII. Herausgegeben von F.G. Welcker und F. Ritschl].

(Frankfurt am Main, Verlag von Johann David Sauerländer, 1868).

8vo. Bound in a very nice recent marbled paper binding with gilt leather title-label to front board. Pp. 479 - 489. The paper is extremely brittle and cracks very easily, thus a few smaller marginal pieces of paper have chipped off, no loss of lettering. One small piece with a few letters is chipped off, but the piece is present and no part of lettering is missing.

The scarce first printing of Nietzsche's third publication, the second of his philological essays.

Nietzsche's first published work was a philological essay published in 1867 in the respected journal of classical studies, the "Rheinisches Museaum für Philologie". That article, published on the urging of his teacher, appeared when Nietzsche had merely been studying philology for a couple of years. Nietzsche began studying philology at the University of Bonn in the winter semester of 1864/65 and quickly became a prize student. His university studies were fairly quickly interrupted, though, as he spent a year in the Prussian Artillary, from October 1867. After about half a year, he was seriously injured and had to spend the last five months there as a reconvalescent. "In the same month he was injured, Nietzsche's second philological essay, "Contribution Towards a Critique of the Greek Lyric Poets"[ Beiträge zur Kritik der griechischen Lyriker], was published in the "Rheinisches Museum". The essay examined the text, verse structure, and meter of Simonides' "Greek Lament" in an attempt to restore it to the poet's original meaning and intent.

"[I]t is uncertain whether all of these articles [i.e. in the Rheinisches Museum] were issued individually and there is no evidence in Nietzsche's letters to suggest the standard offprint policies of Rheinisches Museum at the time." (Schaberg, p. 13).

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