Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was born in 1844 in Röcken, Prussia, the son of a Lutheran pastor who died when Friedrich was four. He studied classical philology at Bonn and Leipzig and was so brilliant that in 1869, at the age of only 24, he was appointed professor at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He became a friend of the composer Richard Wagner, and his first book, The Birth of Tragedy (1872), contrasted the Apollonian and Dionysian spirits in Greek culture. He later broke with Wagner. Poor health forced him to resign his professorship in 1879, and for the next ten years he lived on a small pension, moving among boarding houses in Switzerland, Italy and France and writing a series of books, including The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality. He announced the 'death of God' and wrote of the 'will to power' and the 'overman'. In January 1889 he collapsed in Turin and never recovered his sanity. He was cared for by his mother and sister and died in Weimar in 1900.

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Faith: Son of a Lutheran minister; he is famous for his criticism of Christianity and the morality founded on it. Source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy