Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Beginning his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy, he became the youngestever occupant of the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869, at age 24. He resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life, and he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and a complete loss of his mental faculties. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother and then with his sister Elisabeth FrsterNietzsche, and died in 1900.

Born onOctober 1844, Nietzsche grew up in the small town of Rcken, near Leipzig, in the Prussian Province of Saxony. He was named after King Frederick William IV of Prussia, who turned fortynine on the day of Nietzsches birth. Nietzsches parents, Carl Ludwig Nietzsche , a Lutheran pastor and former teacher, and Franziska Oehler , married in 1843, the year before their sons birth. They had two other children a daughter, Elisabeth FrsterNietzsche, born in 1846, and a second son, Ludwig Joseph, born in 1848. Nietzsches father died from a brain ailment in 1849 Ludwig Joseph died six months later, at age two. The family then moved to Naumburg, where they lived with Nietzsches maternal grandmother and his fathers two unmarried sisters. After the death of Nietzsches grandmother in 1856, the family moved into their own house, now NietzscheHaus, a museum and Nietzsche study centre.

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