# BGE and related 1880s pages print the ‘good European’ against German nationalist piety

Date: 1886

## The fact

In BGE and neighbouring 1880s texts Nietzsche publicly mocked German nationalist piety and praised a ‘good European’ stance.

It is one event.

## Context

Anti-nationalism can be elitist and can still weaken a nationalist polarisation driver. Sign is improving because the driver is a harm. Split sister’s later nationalism.

[Friedrich Nietzsche](/people/friedrich-nietzsche)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Stanford’s moral-political entry and eKGWB independently include the good-European / anti-Reich notes as his print.

Official or archival record: Nietzsche Source — Digital Critical Edition (eKGWB) (https://doc.nietzschesource.org/en/ekgwb; Nietzsche Source / Paolo D’Iorio).

## Significance

Printed scorn for Reich-piety is a de-polarising path relative to later Archiv nationalism.

Good European is not 1934.

Printed scorn for Reich-piety is a de-polarising path relative to later Archiv nationalism.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1880s public good-European pages. Not established: that they created an EU.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Friedrich Nietzsche.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

Contribution type is direct. They are not a public rating.

## People

- Friedrich Nietzsche: https://factrail.ai/people/friedrich-nietzsche

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-moral-political/
- https://doc.nietzschesource.org/en/ekgwb

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nie-good-european-1886