In 2010, Christian Wollek published his doctoral thesis Die lateinischen Texte des Schülers Nietzsche. Übersetzung und Kommentar (henceforth LT)—a German translation of Nietzsche's Latin writings with an introduction and commentary. This book represents the breadth of Nietzsche's Latin writings (his poems, school essays, translations, and excerpts from other authors) and his vast learning (Homer, Greek tragedy, lyric poetry, Horace, Cicero, etc.) while he was a student at the Naumburg Domgymnasium and Schulpforta. As Wollek tells us in the introduction, LT aims both to highlight the relevance of Nietzsche's early writings, which he argues have been too often ignored, even in recent scholarship (20–26), and to develop a picture of Nietzsche's education and reading in Naumburg, especially Nietzsche's training in philology (29).
Wollek is not the first to translate Nietzsche's Latin texts. In her 1993 dissertation Antikes Denken und seine Verarbeitung in den Texten des Schülers Nietzsche, Renate G....
