Friedrich Ritschl, Otto Jahn, Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Ritschl and Otto Jahn are well known as preeminent scholars of classical philology. They are better known as the teachers of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nevertheless their scholarly contexts are today mostly forgotten, with the result that their influence on Nietzsche’s thought has become unclear. In this article, I explore their place in nineteenth-century German scholarship, their heated quarrel with one another, and their direct and indirect influences on Nietzsche.