He was promoted to the second chair in classical philology in 1902.
Classical Philology is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1906.
Classical philology is a subject and institutionalized as such.
He would have liked to study classical philology with the aim of becoming a teacher, but no scholarship was forthcoming.
In the latter year he became professor of classical philology at Columbia University.
In 1878 he moved to Göttingen as ordinary professor of classical philology, later archaeology.
But Nietzsche's motive in opting for classical philology, when he finally did so, was not simple.
His service to both classical and German philology was rendered chiefly as an editor of texts.
He held the chair of classical philology at Harvard for the last seventeen years of his life.
There he also studied classical philology, archeology, art history, and Polish literature.