Erziehung bei Nietzsche und Grasberger

Two unrecognised volumes by the philologist and pedagogue Lorenz Grasberger on education and teaching in antiquity may represent a decisive impulse for Nietzsche's considerations about Bildung. Perhaps even Nietzsche’s educational reflection would remain incomprehensible without Grasberger's overview, which Nietzsche borrowed in Basel and which looks in detail at the education of the body and at the great care bestowed on Bildung. It would thus be part of the intellectual substructure from which Nietzsche creates his pedagogical work. The emphasis Nietzsche places on ancient education, the παιδεία, and his critical relationship to modern Bildung are re-examined in this regard.