Friedrich_Nietzsche - Untimely_Meditations_(Cambridge_Texts_in_the_History_of_Philosophy__1997)

GLOSSARY OF NAMESAUERBACH, Berthold (1812-82) : novelist and story-writer.BAGEHOT, Walter (1826-77) : English economist and journalist.BRANDES, George (1842-1927) : Danish literary critic and historian. The first person togive academic lectures on Nietzsche.BRANDIS, Christian August (1790-1867) : historian of Greek philosophy and professorat the University of Bonn.BULOW, Hans von (1830-94) : German composer and conductor. Married CosimaLiszt, who eventually left him for Richard Wagner.'BURCKHARDT, Jacob (1818-97) : Swiss historian, author of the Civilization of theRenaissance in Italy; he was a senior colleague of Nietzsche's at BaselUniversity.CARRIERE, Phillip Mori (1817-95) : idealist and professor of philosophy at Munich.DEMOSTHENES (384 or 383-322 BC) : Greek orator and statesman.DEUSSEN, Paul (1845-1919): German philosopher and translator of Sanskrit texts.Founder of the Schopenhauer society, Deussen and Nietzsche were pupils togetherat Pforta and remained friends for many years.DEVRIENT, Eduard (1801-77) : German actor, producer and dramatist.DIOGENES LAERTIUS (fl. AD 222-35) : biographer of the Greek philosophers.DUBOIS-REYMOND, Emil (1818-96) : scientist and advocate of agnosticism.ECKERMANN, Johann Peter (1792-1854) : German writer who became an associate andassistant of Goethe during the latter's last years and produced in his Gespriichemit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens (1836---48) the German equivalent ofBoswell's Johnson.ECKHART, Meister (1260-1327) : German mystic.EMPEDOCLES (c. 490-430 BC) : Greek philosopher and statesman.ERWIN VON STEINBACH (d. 1318): principal architect of Strasbourg Cathedral,which is the 'monument' alluded to on p. 73. Goethe's essay. 'Von deutscherBaukunst' (1772) is the source of Nietzsche's observations here.FORSTER-NIETZSCHE, Elisabeth (1846-1935) : Nietzsche's sister, with whom he had aclose but frequently stormy personal relationship.GAST, Peter (see Heinrich Koselitz) .GERSDORFF, Carl von (1844-1904) : Prussian nobleman who befriended Nietzschewhile they were both pupils at Pforta. Gersdorff became an enthusiasticSchopenhauerian and Wagnerian and remained in touch with Nietzsche for therest of his life.GERVINUS, Georg Gottfried (1805-71): German literary critic and a pioneer of thestudy of literary history.255