Nietzsche: A Selected Annotated Bibliography

Nietzsche’s Library

Bibliothek Nietzsches   (S) *Z-9994

This is the microfilm of the approximately 900 books in Nietzsche’s library. About 170 of the books are annotated, many heavily, by Nietzsche.  It should be noted “less than half of the books he read are…found in his library.” Thomas Brobjer, p. 680 (see below).

Bibliothek Nietzsches: Verzeichnis in systematishcher Anordnung nach Oehler. (Weimar: Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, 1997)   (S) *Z-9994+ [Index]

A one-volume index to the microfilm of Nietzsche’s library. (This index is also on microfilm.) Titles are arranged by subject, author, and by the call numbers used at the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar.

Brobjer, Thomas H.  “Nietzsche’s Reading and Private Library, 1885-1889.” Journal of the History of Ideas 58.4 (1997) 663-680  *ZAN-4694 also available on the database, Project Muse

This is a study of what Nietzsche read, his reading habits, and the books he owned. Brobjer thinks it’s important to know both what Nietzsche read and the annotations he made in his books.

Campioni, Giuliano et al.  Nietzsches persönliche Bibliothek. (Berlin; New York: W. de Gruyter, 2003).  (S) *Z-9994+ [Notation Guide]

This study attempts to reconstruct all the books that were in Nietzsche’s library, many of which no longer exist. Also, it lists the pages, in the books Nietzsche owned, where he underlined passages or wrote comments in the margins. (A valuable aid when using the microfilm of Nietzsche’s library.)