Nietzsche became a professor at 24, before he even had a doctorate.
Basel offered him the chair of classical philology in 1869, and Leipzig then granted him the degree without a dissertation.
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- 1869 · 1886 The owner of Neuschwanstein, the castle that inspired Disney, lived there for just 172 days.
- 1869 P. T. Barnum exhibited a fake of a fake.
- 1869 · 1872 Phileas Fogg's race was made possible by 1869.