Weimar

Weimar is recorded as a destination in the final chronology of Friedrich Nietzsche: in 1897, after his mother died, his sister Elisabeth Nietzsche moved him there. The entry marks a change in his living situation during the last years of his life, though it gives no further description of the city or his residence there.

The Move to Weimar

The chronology places the move after a long period of illness and dependence on family care. Following Nietzsche’s mental collapse in Turin in 1889 and admission to a psychiatric clinic at the University of Jena, he returned to his mother’s home in 1890. After his mother’s death in 1897, Elisabeth Nietzsche moved him to Weimar.

Place in the Chronology

Weimar is the last destination named for Nietzsche in the chronology before his death in 1900. The account does not say that he died in Weimar, or describe events during his time there; it establishes only that his sister relocated him to the city three years earlier.