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Walter Kaufmann described the unusual situation as follows.

" But Nietzsche had not yet fulfilled his residence requirement and hence had no doctorate.

So Ritschl expected the case to be hopeless, ' although in the present instance ,' he wrote, ' I should stake my whole philological and academic reputation that the matter would work out happily.

' It is hardly surprising that Basel decided to ignore the ' formal insufficiency.

' Ritschl was delighted: ' In Germany, that sort of thing happens absolutely never .'.