do you think nietzsche read stirner?

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i know the veridct is out, but what's your guess? i'm watching abecedaire, and in letter "j", deleuze talks about nietzsche's "creation of the concept" of the jewish "priest" who declares that the spiritual is all that is of value.

here's a passage from the new stirner translation:
>anyone who lives for a great idea, a good cause, a doctrine, a system, a lofty calling, may not let any worldly desires, any self-seeming interests, arise in himself. here we have the concept of priestliness, or as it can also be called in its pedagogic activity, schoolmasterliness; because ideals act as schoolmasters over us. the clergyman is quite specifically called to live the idea and to work for the idea, the truly good cause..."

the more i read about the two, the harder it is to believe the people who think their thought is just superficially related. apparently there are documented instances of philosopher's inspired by stirner, but who never mentioned him in print (adorno, husserl, etc.) i don't think it's impossible that they just came to the same ideas, but i feel more and more like nietzsche must have read stirner or else been taught his ideas. would love to read a book on the subject.

btw - if it were true, i don't think that would cheapen nietzsche's "project" - his is a lot bigger than stirner's, and has many components that, even if he was following stirner, go a lot further (in certain respects.)