Friedrich_Nietzsche - Untimely_Meditations_(Cambridge_Texts_in_the_History_of_Philosophy__1997)

Glossary of namesGOTISCHED, Johann Christoph (1700-66) : German philosopher and literary critic;the 'literary dictator' of German letters for roughly 30 years (about 1730 to 1760) .GRILLPARZER, Franz (1791-1872) : Austrian dramatist and critic.GUTZKOW, Karl Friedrich (1811-78) : dramatist, novelist, journalist.HARMS, Hans Joachim Friedrich (1816-80): eclectic idealist and professor of philosophyat the University of Berlin.HARTMANN, Eduard von (1842-1906) : German philosopher and mathematician,whose Philosophy oj the Unconscious (1869) is an eclectic blend of Hegelian andSchopenhauerian doctrines.HERBART, Johann Friedrich (1776-1841): Professor of Philosophy at the University ofG6ttingen and founder of empirical psychology.HOLDERLIN, Friedrich (1770-1843) : poet. Unappreciated in his own day, he is nowregarded as one of the greatest masters of German poetry. Like Nietzsche, he diedinsane.KLEIST, Heinrich von (1777-1811): dramatist and story-writer.KOSELITZ, Heinrich (1854-1918) : German composer who functioned for many yearsas Nietzsche's editorial assistant and trusted friend. At Nietzsche's urging, K6selitzadopted the stage name 'Peter Gast' , which is how he is always referred to byNietzsche.LEOPARDI, Giacomo, Count (1798-1837) : Italian poet.LESSING, Gotthold, Ephraim (1729-81): dramatist and critic; the most admiredliterary figure of the age preceding that of Goethe.LICHTENBERG, Georg Christoph (1742-99) : aphorist and satirist.LUCRETIUS (Titus Lucretius Carus: 99/94-55/51 Bt): Roman philosophical poet.MANDEVILLE, Bernard de (1670?-1733) : English philosopher and satirist, best knownfor his satirical work, The Fable oj the Bees (1705).MERCK, Johann Heinrich (1741-91): close friend of Goethe's during the latter'searlier years; noted in German literary history for his influence on Goethe as aknowledgable, if sometimes wounding, critic of Goethe's literary productions.MEYER,Jiirgen (1829-97) : professor of philosophy at the University of Bonn and exponentof a psychological interpretation of Kantianism; author of a critical work onSchopenhauer.MEYERBEER, Giacomo (1791-1864) : German composer who enjoyed his greatest successas the founder of 'grand opera' in Paris.MEYSENBUG, Malwinda von (1816-1903) : educational reformer, friend of revolutionaries,and wealthy patron of the arts and letters, Meysenbug met Nietzsche at theceremonial laying of the foundation stone of the Bayreuth theatre in 1872.Nietzsche subsequently stayed at her villas in Sorrento and Rome and correspondedwith her regularly.MOLTKE, Helmut, Count von (1800-91): Prussian general and for 30 years (1858-88)chief of staff of the Prussian army.MOMMSEN, Theodor (1817-1903) : historian and Nobel prizewinner; author of theHistory oj Rome.NIEBUHR, Barthold Georg (1776-1831): historian, his history of Rome being his mostfamous work.OVERBECK, Franz (1837-1905) : Professor of New Testament and Church History atBasel, where he and Nietzsche became very close friends. Overbeck was one ofNietzsche's most trusted friends during his later years.PASSOW, Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich (1786-1833) : German classicist and Greeklexicographer.POLYBIUS (c. 201-c. 120 BC) : Greek historian; his Histories are essentially the story ofthe rise of the Roman Empire.RAMLER, Karl Wilhelm (1725-98) : poet and translator of classical poets.RANKE, Leopold von (1795-1886) : historian, author of the History oJ the Popes.256