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What's New?

Nietzsche's Library is constantly updated. Check the "Recent Additions" page.
Friedrich Nietzsche in Words and Pictures has updated sample pages.

▼Click for Changes from the Old Website.

The old "Text-German" and "Text-English" have been combined into single pages as "Published Works," "Unpublished Works," "Lectures," "Notebooks," and "Correspondence." The German half of the site is being worked on first, while the English half will appear after that's finished, although there are a few files now available in English.

The "Published Works" page contains files for every edition. E.g., the new site has the first edition of The Birth of Tragedy (which was changed in the subsequent editions), with some explanatory footnotes. So you get to read editions in the form in which they were first published, all in searchable html. The new site also includes Marie Baumgartner's French translation of Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. In addition, each published work (Example 1, Example 2) has an "introductory page" consisting of image/artwork plus a relevant selection from his correspondence relating to the work, or a commentary with background material. All of the published philological articles are also available for the first time in proofread html.

The "Unpublished Works" page contains files from Nietzsche's School Years and Nietzsche's Basel Years. These are all available in German. The English translations are being published in the ebook series, Friedrich Nietzsche in Words and Pictures. Part 1 of the series, "Nietzsche's Childhood: 1844-58" is now available and contains a complete translation of his long autobiography "From My Life" as well as some other material, including 28 color images. Appendix 2, Chronology of Nietzsche's Music (96 pp., 42 images), is also available, and contains complete translations of all the Lieder, references to music in notes and correspondence as well as Nietzsche's marginal glosses to his copy of Bizet's "Carmen." The next part to be published will be Part 2. Nietzsche's School Years and Military Service: 1858-68.

The "Lectures" page lists Nietzsche's Lectures at Basel University, Nietzsche's Courses at the Basel Paedagogium, and Nietzsche's Public Lectures in the Great Hall of the Museum of Basel University with introductory pages as delineated above for the available texts and translations.

The "Correspondence" page is unchanged, although English translations have yet to appear in a limited form. A great deal of translations of his correspondence are being published in the ebook series.

The "Notebooks" page is being worked on at present. The notes will be different in that the text will have links for all of the allusions to, and direct quotes from, the books he read. Some of these links are available now in the German text of the published works. All this is being done in conjunction with "Nietzsche's Library," which brings us to summarizing this revamped material.

"Nietzsche's Library" is very illuminating insofar as it really shows how much he confronted his contemporaries, and should be of interest, if not indispensable, to anyone writing on or researching Nietzsche. The library also has translations of the reviews of his works, some of which, as we know regarding BGE, left the reviewer either flummoxed (Conrad Hermann in Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung) or quite derisive (George von Gizycki in Deutsche Rundschau)—both motivating factors behind Nietzsche's decision to write GM.

It's a lot of work revising ten years of files, so if you want to help keep the site alive, make a donation or purchase the ebook.

02-03-12

Idylls from Messina
English translation.

Idyllen aus Messina / Idylls from Messina
Dual text in German and English.

01-30-12

Nietzsche's Music
More links with images.

01-27-12

Nietzsche contra Wagner
English translation.

Nietzsche contra Wagner
Dual text in German and English.

Jenseits von Gut und Böse / Beyond Good and Evil
Dual text in German and English.

01-24-12

Nietzsche's Music
Comprehensive update.

01-17-12

Nietzsche's Library
Revised and added library files. See "Recent Additions."

01-06-12

Nietzsche's Library
Revised and added library files. See "Recent Additions."

01-05-12

Nietzsche in Film
Expanded review of When Nietzsche Wept.

Nietzsche's Library
Updated and corrected several files.

12-29-11

Nietzsche's Library
Updated and corrected several files.

12-16-11

Nietzsche's Library
Updated and corrected several files.

12-13-11

Nietzsche's Library
Updated and corrected several files.

12-09-11

Nietzsche's Library
Updated and corrected several files.

11-11-11

Nietzsche's Library
Updated Anacreon, Jacob Burckhardt, Charles Féré and Thucydides files.

11-10-11

Nietzsche's Library
Added lists of individual pages of Nietzsche's annotations for those books currently available at HAAB. The pages are not linked individually but the link to the book is available. Linking the pages may be done at a later date (that would be thousands of links, so don't hold your breath).

10-18-11

Nietzsche's Library
Added 208 links to Nietzsche's original editions with his pen and pencil annotations, 52 of which are new books for the database. See "Recent Additions."

09-09-11

Nietzsche's Library
Revised and added library files. See "Recent Additions."

08-15-11

Nietzsche's Library
Revised and added library files. See "Recent Additions."

07-12-11

Nietzsche's Library
Revised and added 62 library files. See "Recent Additions."

06-11-11

Nietzsche's Library
Revised and added library files.

05-23-11

Nietzsche's Library
Revised 2 library files.

Unpublished Works from Nietzsche's School Years
The following English translations can be previewed and purchased:
From My Life (1858).
Ermanaric, King of the Ostrogoths. A Historical Sketch. (1861)
Fate and History (1862).
Freedom of the Will and Fate (1862).
[On the Essence of Music. Three fragments.] (1862)
[On the Musical Composition, "Ermanaric."] (1862)
Can the Envious Ever Really Be Happy? (1863)
My Life (1863).
On Moods (1864).
My Life (1864).
Retrospect on My Two Years at Leipzig (1868).
On Schopenhauer (1868).

05-21-11

Ermanarich, Ostgothenkönig. Eine historische Skizze (1861).
Corrected text.

04-30-11

Nietzsche's Library
Updated 10 library files. See "Recent Additions."

From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Revised 8 notebooks files with library links.

04-29-11

Nietzsche's Unpublished Works
Added footnotes to:
Fatum und Geschichte.
Willensfreiheit und Fatum.

04-20-11

Nietzsche's Library
Updated 9 library files. See "Recent Additions."

From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Revised 4 notebooks files with library links.

04-18-11

Nietzsche's Library
Updated 8 library files. See "Recent Additions."

Nietzsche's Unpublished Works
Added the following writings in German:
— Nietzsches Tagebuch und andere autobiographische Schriften (1856-1861).
— Ermanarich, Ostgothenkönig. Eine historische Skizze (1861).
— Mein Leben (1863).

04-16-11

Nietzsche's Library
Updated 14 library files. See "Recent Additions."

04-14-11

Zu Schopenhauer.
Corrected text.

Nietzsche's Library
Updated library files.

02-25-11

Rückblick auf meine zwei Leipziger Jahre.
Corrected text.

Nietzsche's Library
Updated library files: Agthe, Aristophanes, Bussenius, Neumann.

02-05-11

Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik.
Index page and complete text of the second edition published in 1878.

"De Laertii Diogenis fontibus, 1-2."
Complete text in Latin and Greek.

"De Laertii Diogenis fontibus, 3-6."
Complete text in Latin and Greek.

De Theognide Megarensi.
Complete text in Latin and Greek.

These four works complete the original published and unpublished works sections of the new website. Remember to download and install the Greek font in order to display Greek text.

01-07-11

Philologische Schriften.
Abstracts of Nietzsche's philological works with links to the texts (previously uploaded philological writings have been backlinked to this page).

Beiträge zur Quellenkunde und Kritik des Laertius Diogenes.
In German, Greek and Latin.

"Certamen quod dicitur Homeri et Hesiodi."
In Greek with Latin commentary.

12-11-10

Zur Geschichte der Theognideischen Spruchsammlung
Nietzsche's first published work. In German, Greek and Latin.

Nietzsche's Library / From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Revised 48 library files. Added 132 notebooks files with library links completing the German notebooks pages. Notice of further revisions to the notebooks files can be found here or at the "New Sources" page of Nietzsche's Library.

10-26-10

Nietzsche's Library / From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Revised 2 library files. Added Sommer 1875 6[1-51] to Sommer 1875 11[1-60] notebooks files with library links.

10-25-10

Nietzsche's Library / From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Revised 4 files. Added to New Sources: Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker. Revised 1 notebooks files. Added Sommer 1875 6 [1-51] notebooks file with library links.

10-24-10

From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Revised 2 notebooks files. Added Frühjahr-Sommer 1875 5 [1-200] notebooks files with library links.

10-17-10

Nietzsche's Library / From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Corrected Rütimeyer file. Revised 1 notebooks file. Added Winter-Frühjahr 1875 1[1-5] to Frühjahr 1875 4[1-5] notebooks files with library links.

10-15-10

Fixed broken library links sitewide.

10-12-10

Correspondents.
The Nietzsche Channel has finally discovered a photograph of the elusive Louise Ott. The photo is c. March 1876, a few months before she met Nietzsche in Bayreuth. It has been enhanced from its original oval "portrait" type, ©The Nietzsche Channel. Ott's biography has also been updated.

10-06-10

Correspondents.
Further revisions to the bio of Louise Ott.

10-04-10

Homer und die klassische Philologie.
Revised index page. With images of printed dedication to Elisabeth Nietzsche and printed poem "In Basel steh ich unverzagt ...".

09-30-10

Homer und die klassische Philologie.
Revised index page (with images of dedications to Gersdorff and Deussen).
Correspondents.
Revised the bio of Louise Ott.

09-27-10

Homer und die klassische Philologie.
Revised index page.

09-18-10

Die fröhliche Wissenschaft.
1882 edition with index page and Nietzsche's concluding remarks.

09-17-10

Morgenröthe.
1881 edition with index page.

08-23-10

Nietzsche in Film.
Added the 1915 silent film, "A Disciple of Nietzsche."

08-21-10

Friedrich Nietzsche: Popular Quotations.
Tidbits of Nietzsche for the reading-challenged. In English.

08-15-10

Friedrich Nietzsche in Words and Pictures.
Reformatted with sample pages.

08-05-10

Der Florentinische Tractat über Homer und Hesiod, ihr Geschlecht und ihren Wettkampf, 3-5.
Reprint of Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 28 (1873): 211-249. In html format with text in German and Greek.

08-03-10

CHRONOLOGY OF NIETZSCHE'S MUSIC
Friedrich Nietzsche in Words and Pictures. Appendix 2. 96 pages with 42 images (PDF). Sections:
— 1854-1860.
— 1861-1863.
— 1864-1867.
— 1870-1887.
— Sheet Music.
— Music References in Works & Notes with translations.
— Music References in Correspondence with translations.
— Nietzsche's Marginal Glosses to Georges Bizet's "Carmen."
— Bibliography.

07-28-10

Fixed CSS for Chrome browser.

07-27-10

Briefe an Der Kunstwart
Two letters by Nietzsche to Ferdinand Avenarius published in Avenarius' magazine, at Nietzsche's request. In German.

07-26-10

Poetry
List of Nietzsche's poems and poetic fragments, in English and German, with available links. The page is incomplete at present.

Nietzsche's Music
With available links. Chronology of Nietzsche's Music will be published soon.

07-24-10

Poems/Gedichte
Nietzsche's poems in English and German, with a few new translations. In dual text format.

07-20-10

Der Florentinische Tractat über Homer und Hesiod, ihr Geschlecht und ihren Wettkampf, 1-2.
Reprint of Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 25 (1870):528-540. In html format with text in German and Greek.

06-28-10

Nietzsche's Library / From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Added Hausrath, and revised 9 other library files. Added remaining files (Herbst 1873—Winter 1873-74 30[1-38] through Ende 1874 38 [1-7]), completing the 1869-1874 section of the German notebooks with library links.

06-24-10

Nietzsche's Library / From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Corrected Hamann file. Added Hegel, Jean Paul and Rosenkranz files. Revised 14 other library files. Added to New Sources: Karl Rosenkranz. Revised 4 published, 1 unpublished, and 1 notebooks files. Added Sommer-Herbst 1873 29 [1-100] and Sommer-Herbst 1873 29 [101-232] notebooks files with library links.

06-18-10

Nietzsche's Library / From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Added library links to various texts, and 5 files for Nietzsche's Library. Added 3 revised notebooks files (Frühjahr 1873 26[1-24], Frühjahr - Herbst 1873 27[1-81] and Frühjahr - Herbst 1873 28[1-6]).

06-15-10

Nietzsche's Library / From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Added library links to various texts, and more files for Nietzsche's Library (11 library files and revised 9 notebooks files).

06-12-10

Nietzsche's Library
Added library links to various texts, and more files for Nietzsche's Library (11 library files; 3 works-pub files; 1 works-unpub file).

06-10-10

Nietzsche's Library
Added library links to various texts, and more files for Nietzsche's Library (16 library files; 8 works-pub files; 1 works-unpub file; 1 notebooks file, and fixed some broken links).

06-06-10

Nietzsche's Library
Added to "New Sources of Nietzsche's Reading": Albert Bournet. Also added library links to various texts, and more files for Nietzsche's Library.

06-04-10

Added library links to various texts, and more files for Nietzsche's Library.

05-31-10

Added library links to various texts, and more files for Nietzsche's Library.

05-25-10

From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Uploaded eight new files of edited notes with library links (February 1871 11[1] through End 1871—Spring 1872 18 [1-13]), and more files for Nietzsche's Library.

05-21-10

Analecta Laertiana.
Reprint of Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 25 (1870): 217-231. In html format with text in Latin and Greek.

05-13-10

From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Uploaded two new files of edited notes with library links (1871 9[1-151] through Early 1871 10[1]), and more files for Nietzsche's Library.

05-09-10

From Nietzsche's Notebooks
Working on revised German notes with library links; uploaded first eight files (Fall 1869 through Winter 1870-71 - Fall 1872). Also uploaded the concordance between KSA and WP, with a few changes from the old version.

05-06-10

Nietzsche's Library
Added to "New Sources of Nietzsche's Reading": Johann Adam Hartung.

04-26-10

Nietzsche's Library
Added to "New Sources of Nietzsche's Reading": Eduard Pfander. Fixed some broken links.

03-27-10

Nietzsche's Library
Added "Recent Additions" page for new content.

03-24-10

Mahnruf an die Deutschen
Added to the introductory page: October 25/26, 1873 letter from Friedrich Nietzsche to Richard Wagner, with English translation.

03-23-10

Der Danae Klage
Reprint of Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 23 (1868): 480-489. In html format with text in German, Greek and Latin.

03-21-10

Image Gallery
B/w photographs and art depicting Nietzsche from 1861-1899. Additonal and colorized images from 1827-1944 available in Friedrich Nietzsche in Words and Pictures.

03-08-10

Nietzsche's Letters
Selected correspondence in German.

03-05-10

Most of the German content (with some new material) is now up, along with some of the main pages. The rest will be added soon. Search results will lag until the Google-Bot finishes spidering the site.

Nietzsche's Library
This revolutionary tool for Nietzsche studies is now directly on the site. The main page has full-text search of the library on Google Books. Use the search tips to refine your results. Google has stopped supporting IE6. If you are still using that browser, the search page will hang.

11-23-09

The Nietzsche Channel is slowly coming back online. At present, the following sections are up:

Nietzsche's Library
Now with over 1300 volumes, as well as some new sections, including one regarding a loan that he requested from the University of Leiden.

E-Book
Friedrich Nietzsche in Words and Pictures, a comprehensive pictorial biography is available for purchase. Part 1. Nietzsche's Childhood: 1844-58 includes translations of "From My Life," early poetry and correspondence, with 28 images.

Donate
With over twenty million visits, the site needs donations to pay for the bandwidth. On the bright side, it won't be shut down ten to fifteen thousand times a month like it was due to Geocities bandwidth restrictions. You can also view a list of academic institutions that have used the site.

Some changes from the old site that are planned for the other sections include:
1. Dual text: you will be able to compare the original German with the translation on a single page.
2. The texts will be broken down into more manageable sections.
3. The forum will be closed.
4. Advertising is being accepted. Contact for rates and specs.