The purpose of the article is to establish a relation between Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation, one of his early writings that was published in 1874, and some of the writings of Heidegger’s early lectures in Freiburg, in which the latter proposes a hermeneutic phenomenology of factical life. Though the Young Heidegger distances himself from the philosophy of life, of which Nietzsche has been considered a representative, the article aims to show some significant similarities in the way both philosophers understand history.