Spirit of Music ), his first book.
1873
Publication of the first two Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen ( Untimely Meditations ): David Strauss, der Bekenner und Schriftsteller ( David Strauss, the Confessor and Writer ), and Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben ( On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life ).
1874
Schopenhauer als Erzieher ( Schopenhauer as Educator ) is published as the third Untimely Meditation.
1876
After many delays, Nietzsche completes and publishes Richard Wagner in Bayreuth as the last of the Untimely Meditations , although more had been planned originally. Poor health. Leave from the university. Sorrento.
1878
Menschliches, Allzumenschliches ( Human, All-Too-Human ) appears. For the next ten years a new book is printed every year.
1879
Resignation from the university with pension. Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche ( Mixed Opinions and Maxims ) published as Anhang (appendix) of Human , All-Too-Human. Summer in St. Moritz in the Engadin.
1880
Der Wanderer und sein Schatten ( The Wanderer and His Shadow ) appears as Zweiter und letzter Nachtrag (second and final sequel) of Human, All-Too-Human.
1881
Publication of Die Morgenröte ( The Dawn ). Winter and spring in Genoa, summer in Sils Maria (Engadin), fall in Genoa.
1882
Publication of Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft ( The Gay Science ). Winter in Genoa, spring in Messina, summer in Tautenburg with Lou Salomé and his sister Elisabeth, fall in Leipzig. Goes to Rapallo in November.
1883
Writes the First Part of Also Sprach Zarathustra in Rapallo during the winter; spends March and April in Genoa, May in Rome, and the summer in Sils Maria, where he completes Part Two. Both parts are published separately in 1883. From now until 1888, Nietzsche spends every summer in Sils Maria, every winter in Nizza.
1884
Writes the Third Part in Nizza in January. It is published later the same year.
1885
The Fourth and Last Part of Zarathustra is written during the winter in Nizza and Mentone. Forty copies are printed privately, but only seven distributed among friends.
1886
Publication of Jenseits von Gut und Böse ( Beyond Good and Evil ). A new preface is added to the remaining copies of both previous editions of The Birth of Tragedy (1872 and 1878, textually different); the last part of the title is now omitted in favor of a new subtitle: Griechentum und Pessimismus ( The Greek Spirit and Pessimism ). Second edition of Human, All-Too-Human with a new preface and with the two sequels printed as volume two.
1887
Publication of Zur Genealogie der Moral ( Toward a Genealogy of Morals ) . Second edition of The Dawn , with a new preface, and of The Gay Science, with a newly added fifth book ( aphorisms 343-383 ) and an appendix of poems.
1888
Winter in Nizza, spring in Turin, summer in Sils Maria, fall in Turin. Publication of Der Fall Wagner ( The Wagner Case ). The beginning of fame: Georg Brandes lectures on Nietzsche at the University of Copenhagen.
1889
Nietzsche becomes insane early in January in Turin. Overbeck, a friend and former colleague, brings him back to Basel. He is committed to the asylum in Jena, but soon released in care of his mother, who takes him to Naumburg. Die Götzen-Dämmerung ( Twilight of the Idols ), written in 1888, appears in January.
1891
The first public edition of the Fourth Part of Zarathustra is held up at the last minute lest it be confiscated. It is published in 1892.
1895
Der Antichrist. and Nietzsche contra Wagner, both written in 1888, are finally published in volume eight of Nietzscheâs collected worksâthe former, mistakenly, as Book One of Der Wille zur Macht (The Will to Power).
1897
Nietzscheâs mother dies. His sister moves him to Weimar.
1900
Nietzsche dies in Weimar on August 25.
1901
His sister publishes some 400 of his notes, many already fully utilized by him, in Volume XV of the collected works under the title Der Wille zur Macht.
1904
His sister integrates 200 pages of further