# Thus Spoke Zarathustra I prints the Übermensch as a rank above the last man

Date: 1883

## The fact

In 1883 the first part of Also sprach Zarathustra publicly taught a figure who must be created above the last man.

It is one event.

## Context

Verse-prophecy can be literature and can teach contempt for ordinary lives. Split later cheap Gutenberg access.

[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

eKGWB and Gutenberg’s Zarathustra independently carry the Übermensch / last-man pairing as his text.

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

## Significance

A printed human rank-order is an inequality path, even when it is not a tax code.

1883 is not Elisabeth’s archive, and not a 1930s caption.

A printed human rank-order is an inequality path, even when it is not a tax code.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1883 public Zarathustra I with the Übermensch teaching. Not established: that he designed a racial hygiene office.

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

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1998
- https://doc.nietzschesource.org/en/ekgwb

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/nie-zarathustra-rank-1883