NIETZSCHE - ROHDE, E.

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Afterphilologie. Zur Beleuchtung des von dem Dr. phil. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Möllendorff herausgegebenen Pamphlets: "Zukunftsphilologie!" First edition of Rohde's contribution to the pamphlet war sparked by the publication of Nietzsche's Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik."The book caused a furor. Wagnerians embraced it while philologists were appalled. Among his colleagues, only Nietzsche's friend Rohde was willing to praise the book in public, and the first review he submitted to the Literarisches Centralblatt was rejected by the editors. A rewritten review was printed by the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung on 26 May. Four days later, the young Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Möllendorff attacked the book savagely in a thirty-two page pamphlet entitled Future-philology! (Zukunftsphilologie!) which sold out quickly. Wagner replied on 23 June, defending Nietzsche in an open letter published in the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. Unfortunately, Wagner's amateurish attempt at support did nothing more than confirm the worst fears of the scholarly forces lining up against Nietzsche. Rohde, who was totally committed to the defence of his friend - although possibly against his better judgement at this point - counterattacked Wilamowitz-Möllendorff in a forty-eight page pamphlet, entitled Pseudo-philology (Afterphilologie), which was published on 15 October. The final entry in this exchange occurred on 21 February 1873, when Wilamowitz-Möllendorff published his Future-philology

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