"Context is particularly important in Nietzsche’s case because his life story was so dramatic. The young Friedrich (or Fritz, as he was known) was, by all accounts, simply the most brilliant student any of his formidable professors had ever encountered, going all the way back to his boarding school days at Pforta. His teacher of classical philology at Leipzig, Friedrich Ritschl, said that in his 39 years of teaching he had 'never known a young man who has matured so early.' Nietzsche was awarded a doctorate at age 24 and a professorship at the University of Basel the same year; he was promoted to full professor at 25—a feat not even Larry Summers could duplicate."
In The New York Times, Francis Fukuyama reviews Julian Young's Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography.
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