Chronicle of Nietzsche 's Life 3611874
January: The second Untimely Meditation is published. Wagner to Ν.: "I
have only one comment for you: I feel a wonderful sense of pride that I
no longer need to provide commentary and can leave everything to
you." February: David Friedrich Strauss dies. Ν.: "I really hope that I did
not make the end of his life more difficult, and I hope he died without
knowing anything about me.—It does rather concern me."
Rohde criticizes N.'s style when asked to do so by N.: "You do not
deduce neady enough.... It seems to me that you use images that are
not well chosen, and often downright clumsy."
Wagner reacts to N.'s laments about his bad health and matters of that
sort: "He needs to get married or write an opera. Of course, the latter
would be the kind that would never be performed, and that does not lead
to life either." N. to Gersdorff: "If you only knew how disheartened and
melancholy I feel about myself as a productive individuall I am looking
only for a litde freedom and a litde of the real air of life, and I am fight-
ing off and rebelling against the many, unspeakably many constraints
that I cannot shed" (April). N. on the function of his Untimely
Meditations: "I now have to pull everything polemical negative hateful
agonizing out of myself" (May 10).
July: Work on the third Untimely Meditation. N.'s excommunication by his
academic field sets in: in the spring semester and the following fall, N.
has only three, "incompetent" students. Studies Max Stirner. N. votes
for the admission of female students into the doctoral program (July).
His sister temporarily runs his household in Basel. He discusses plans
for marriage with his friends and his sister. Visit to Bayreuth (August).
Rouses displeasure because he raves about Brahms. October: The third
Untimely Meditation is published. Christmas and New Year's in
Naumburg.