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Nietzsche resigns the Basel philology chair for health, exiting a public academic labour post

The 1879 resignation is the dated labour exit from the Basel chair. Friedrich Nietzsche’s documented role is: He requested release from the chair. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Labour-Market Tightness.

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The 1879 resignation is the dated labour exit from the Basel chair. Friedrich Nietzsche’s documented role is: He requested release from the chair. The university granted a pension. He did not abolish philology posts. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Friedrich Nietzsche's documented role is: He requested release from the chair. The university granted a pension. He did not abolish philology posts.

Context

Migraine, eye, and stomach illness as the received medical weather. Overbeck remains in Basel. Named others on the file: Universität Basel as employer; Franz Overbeck as colleague. The public setting is the file around 1879-05-01. The instrument stays Nietzsche resigns the Basel philology chair for health, exiting a public academic labour post. The setting of Nietzsche resigns the Basel philology chair for health, exiting a public academic labour post is the public file around 1879-05-01. Driver labour-market-tightness is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Why it matters

Academic labour exit. Welfare reading worsening. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He requested release from the chair. The university granted a pension. He did not abolish philology posts.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactNietzsche resigns the Basel philology chair for health, exiting a public academic labour post
    2. strengthensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 May 1879 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Friedrich NietzscheEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Nietzsche’s Life and WorksStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

SEP life-works and Britannica independently date the 1879 resignation for health. Official: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Nietzsche’s Life and Works (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-life-works/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent: Britannica — Friedrich Nietzsche (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Friedrich-Nietzsche (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Nietzsche’s Life and Works (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-life-works/ (opens in a new tab); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Independent carrier: Britannica — Friedrich Nietzsche (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Friedrich-Nietzsche (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Resignation file, not a clinic tape. Established: a sourced public record of Nietzsche resigns the Basel philology chair for health, exiting a public academic labour post under 1879-05-01.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Nietzsche resigns the Basel philology chair for health, exiting a public academic labour post are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Nietzsche resigns the Basel philology chair for health, exiting a public academic labour post. Naming Friedrich Nietzsche does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1879-05-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorFriedrich Nietzsche
  2. contributed toFactNietzsche resigns the Basel philology chair for health, exiting a public academic labour post
  3. strengthensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

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Factrail. (2026). Nietzsche resigns the Basel philology chair for health, exiting a public academic labour post. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/nie-basel-resign-1879

https://factrail.ai/facts/nie-basel-resign-1879

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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