NIETZSCHE, Friedrich.

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Gratulationsschrift des Paedagogiums zu Basel. First edition of this scarce early article, privately printed in a run of 100 copies. The Gratulationsschrift was written shortly after Nietzsche had gained tenure at the University of Basel, at the age of 24. He began his academic career as a philologist, and the Gratulationsschrift outlines a philological study of Diogenes Laertius, the shadowy author of the Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers. Nietzsche dedicates the work to F. D. Gerlach, a colleague at Basel, and copies were distributed at the ceremony marking Gerlach's retirement, despite the fact Gerlach had opposed Nietzsche's appointment.Some copies were issued with a half-page cancel, either bound between pages 2 and 3 or pasted to the lower half of page 3, that is not present here. No priority has been identified.Provenance: Hermann Türck (1856-1933), a philosopher and Nietzsche scholar, who wrote Fr. Nietzsche und seine philosophischen Irrwege in 1891, a psychological study of the man and his later works. Türck's large printed bookplate is on the front pastedown.

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