Before Friedrich Nietzsche became one of the prominent philosophers of the 19th century and perhaps the most influential philosopher for the 20th, he was a classical philologist. He was famously granted a doctorate from the University of Leipzig without examination and appointed professor of philology at Basel University at the age of twenty-five. While a student, he studied under the preeminent classicists Otto Jahn and Frierdich Ritschl, and, as the only student to publish in the latter’s Reinisches Museum für Philologie, produced a series of important articles and lectures on early Ancient society, poetry, and culture.

The workshop will host international scholars such as Glenn Most, Babette Babich, Thomas Brobjer and Joachim Latacz.

Program and other informations

Organizers: Dr. Helmut Heit (TU Berlin), Dr. Anthony Jensen (CUNY / HU-Berlin)

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