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5 unusual facts about Peter Gast


Epicurus

Nietzsche cites his affinities to Epicurus in a number of his works, including The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, and his private letters to Peter Gast.

Library of Friedrich Nietzsche

In a letter of 26 February 1888 to Peter Gast, Nietzsche mentions his reading of the posthumous works of Charles Baudelaire (published in 1887).

In his notebooks, Nietzsche copied several passages of Féré, later included, without quotation marks, in The Will to Power published by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Peter Gast.

Peter Gast

Heinrich Köselitz - author, friend of Friedrich Nietzsche, who gave him the pseudonym "Peter Gast"

Untimely Meditations

He was persuaded to redraft the article by his friend, the enthusiastic Wagnerian Peter Gast who helped him prepare a less contentious version.



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