Thursday, August 20, 2020
Ritschl
Ronald Hayman, Nietzsche: A Critical Life (1980; rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1982), p. 60:
Nietzsche's teacher was not the theologian Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889), but the philologist Friedrich Ritschl (1806-1876).
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In any case he would not be restricted to attending theology lectures, and, according to Deussen, he and Nietzsche had both been attracted to Bonn by the presence of two philologists, Albrecht Ritschl and Otto Jahn. Jahn was a pioneer in the study of Greek art; Ritschl was known for his work on Plautus and early Latin.The index of Hayman's book has an entry for "Ritschl, Albrecht" (p. 421).
Nietzsche's teacher was not the theologian Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889), but the philologist Friedrich Ritschl (1806-1876).
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