Friedrich_Nietzsche - Untimely_Meditations_(Cambridge_Texts_in_the_History_of_Philosophy__1997)

Glossary of namesRitE, Paul (IS49-1901): German moral philosopher and author of The Origins oj OurMoral Sentiments (IS77) . Nietzsche and Ree were close friends for almost a decadeand lived together in Italy on several occasions.RIEHL, Wilhelm Heinrich (IS23-97) : writer, historian and composer; his Hausmusiksettings of 50 poems - was published in IS55; thedesign shows a family ofat least eight people and a cat gathered around a piano a clear_ indication of thecharacter of Riehl's music.RlTfER, Heinrich (1791-1S69): professor of philosophy at Gottingen and famous historianof philosophy.ROHDE, Erwin (IS45-9S): German philologist who became acquainted with Nietzschewhile they were students together at Bonn and Leipzig. Rohde and Nietzscheremained dose throughout Nietzsche's Basel period, but were estranged soonthereafter.SALOM E , Lou (lS61-1937): Russian novelist and memoirist, best known for her intellectualfriendships 'with such men as Rilke, Freude, and Adler. In the early ISS0sSalome was close to both Nietzsche and Paul Ree.SANDERS, Daniel (ISI9-97) : lexicographer and author of a dictionary on properusage, with illustrations from 'classic' authors.SAVONAROLA, Girolamo (l452-9S) : Florentine religious reformer.SCALIGER, julius Caesar (l484-155S) : classical scholar.SCHLEIERMACHER, Friedrich Daniel Ernst (1768-1834) : theologian; the founder ofmodern Protestant theology.SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur (l7S8-1S60): philosopher, author of The World as Will andIdea (lSI9) . one of the great philosophical texts of the nineteenth century.Although he had no genuine successors and founded no school, his influencewas very widespread from about the middle of the century onwards, his mostfamous disciple being Richard Wagner, who believed that Schopenhauer hadrevealed to him the meaning of his own works and who then consciously pursueda Schopenhauerean line. In his youth Nietzsche counted himself a disciple ofSchopenhauer, though he later repudiated all his doctrines. In the presentcentury Schopenhauer's philosophy of will has been one of the influences behindthe development of existentialism and Freudian psychology.Anne Louise, Baronne de (1766-1S17) : French writer; noteworthy in thepresent context for her study of German life and letters and her efforts to makethe French understand them.STRAUSS, David Friedrich (IS0S-74) : theologian who, under the influence of thephilosophy of Hegel, propounded in his Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet (IS35-6)the thesis that the events narrated in the Gospels are not historical but mythical -a thesis which ensured his exclusion from teaching in German universities. In hislast work, Der alte und neue Glaube (IS72), he renounced Christianity altogether infavour of a form of scientific materialism. Though he is now a familiar name onlyto students of nineteenth-century theology, Strauss enjoyed considerable fameand notoriety in his own time.THIERS, Louis Adolphe (1797-1S77): extremely influential French historian.VISCHER, Friedrich Theodor (IS07-S7) : theologian, aesthetician and man of letters.WAGNER, Cosima (IS37-1930): daughter of Franz Liszt, who married Hans von Biilow,but soon left him for Richard Wagner, with whom she lived in exile in Tribschen,where Nietzsche met her in IS69. Cosima and Richard Wagner finally married inIS70.WAGNER, Richard (lSI3-S3): composer, dramatist and man of letters. His career inthe theatre over the half-century IS32-S2, as opera composer and librettist, conductor,reformer and finally as the creator of the Bayreuth Festival, and hisinfluence on the course not only of opera composition and production but ofmusic in general, are unexampled in the history of music and possibly in that of257