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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
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Born 15 October 1844 · Died 25 August 1900 · Q9358
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“Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.... I am proud of my Polish descent.”
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“s Life of Jesus also seems to have had a profound effect on the young man. In addition, Ludwig Feuerbach”
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Infobae: Friedrich Nietzsche, filósofo: “La madurez del hombre es haber vuelto a encontrar la seriedad con la que jugaba cuando era niño”
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The Economic Times: Tuesday Motivation by Friedrich Nietzsche: 'The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said, “If you crush a cockroach, you’re a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you’re a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria.”” Incorrect Attribution.
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Released album “Wagner's Nightmare”.
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Released album “Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra, vol. 1”.
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Released album “Complete Piano Music”.
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Released album “Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future”.
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Released album “Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra”.
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Released album “Sämtliche Werke für Klavier Solo”.
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Released album “Also sprach Zarathustra”.
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Released album “The Music of Friedrich Nietzsche”.
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Released album “Lieder / Piano Works / Melodrama”.
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Released album “Songs”.
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In The Double Man): "O masterly debunker of our liberal fallacies
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Before the Nazis' rise to power, and subsequently published several editions of Nietzsche's work during the Third Reich
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The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and in 1910 a book of translated paragraphs from Nietzsche, increasing knowledge of his philosophy in the United States
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Died 1900-08-25.
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“Du gehst zu Frauen? Vergiss die Peitsche nicht! (niem.)”
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“Der Mensch ist etwas, das überwunden werden soll. (niem.)”
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“Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.”
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“Der Aphorismus (…) [ist] die Form der „Ewigkeit”; mein Ehrgeiz ist, in zehn Sätzen zu sagen, was jeder andre in einem Buche sagt – was jeder andre in einem Buche nicht sagt. (niem.)”
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His works became better known, and readers have responded to them in complex and sometimes controversial ways
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And 1899 Nietzsche suffered at least two strokes
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Nietzsche lived in Weimar, where Elisabeth cared for him and allowed visitors, including Rudolf Steiner (who in 1895 had written Friedrich Nietzsche: A Fighter Against His Time, one of the first books praising Nietzsche)
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Nietzsche's sister, Elisabeth, returned from Nueva Germania in Paraguay following the suicide of her husband
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Aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and lat
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"My ancestors were Polish noblemen (Nietzky); the type seems to have been well preserved despite three generations of German mothers
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“My ancestors were Polish noblemen (Nietzky); the type seems to have been well preserved despite three generations of German mothers.”
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The influential Danish critic Georg Brandes aroused considerable excitement about Nietzsche through a series of lectures he gave at the University of Copenhagen
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Nietzsche wanted some of his notes burned, this indicates little about his project on the will to power, not only because only 11 "aphorisms" saved from the flames were ultimately incorporated into The Will to Power (thi
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Nietzsche wrote the polemic On the Genealogy of Morality
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Nietzsche broke with his publisher Ernst Schmeitzner, disgusted by his antisemitic opinions
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Because of his opposition to his editor's antisemitic stances, and his rupture with Richard Wagner, expressed in The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche contra Wagner, both of which he wrote in 1888, had much to do with Wagner'
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His sister, Elisabeth, married the antisemite Bernhard Förster and travelled to Paraguay to found Nueva Germania, a "Germanic" colony
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Printed only 40 copies of the fourth part of Zarathustra and distributed a fraction of them among close friends, including Helene von Druskowitz
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Tried and failed to obtain a lecturing post at the University of Leipzig
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While staying in Nice, he was writing out his own prescriptions for the sedative chloral hydrate, signing them "Dr
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“genuine hatred for my sister”
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That he now felt "genuine hatred for my sister"
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Nietzsche published the first part of The Gay Science
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When France occupied Tunisia, he planned to travel to Tunis to view Europe from the outside but later abandoned that idea, probably for health reasons
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Studied at Leipzig University (1865–1879).
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After a significant decline in health, Nietzsche had to resign his position at Basel and was pensioned
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Nietzsche published one book or major section of a book each year until 1888, his last year of writing; that year, he completed five
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Of Human, All Too Human (a book of aphorisms ranging from metaphysics to morality to religion), a new style of Nietzsche's work became clear, highly influenced by Afrikan Spir's Thought and Reality and reacting against t
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Influenced him into dismissing the pessimism in his early writings
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Gast transcribed the crabbed, nearly illegible handwriting of Nietzsche's first encounter with Richard Wagner in Bayreuth
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Nietzsche began to accumulate notes that would be posthumously published as Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
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Nietzsche published his first book, The Birth of Tragedy
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Nietzsche observed the establishment of the German Empire and Otto von Bismarck's subsequent policies as an outsider and with a degree of scepticism regarding their genuineness
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May have aggravated these persistent conditions, which continued to affect him through his years at Basel, forcing him to take longer and longer holidays until regular work became impractical
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Gave Cosima Wagner the manuscript of "The Genesis of the Tragic Idea" as a birthday gift
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Career landmark: professor (1869–1878).
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With Ritschl's support, Nietzsche received an offer to become a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland
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At age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel
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Nietzsche wrote in a letter that he was trying to improve his German style of writing with the help of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and Schopenhauer
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Nietzsche signed up for one year of voluntary service with the Prussian artillery division in Naumburg
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Career landmark: volunteer serving one year (1867).
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Read Friedrich Albert Lange's History of Materialism
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Nietzsche thoroughly studied the works of Arthur Schopenhauer
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Studied at University of Bonn (1864–1865).
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Nietzsche wrote an enthusiastic essay on his "favourite poet", Friedrich Hölderlin, mostly forgotten at that time
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Studied at Landesschule Pforta (1858).
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At the Schulpforta in Naumburg when he started to work on musical compositions
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The family moved into their own house, now Nietzsche-Haus, a museum, and Nietzsche study centre
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Studied at Domgymnasium Naumburg (1854).
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Began to attend the Gymnasium in Naumburg
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After a year of excruciating agony, when the boy was only four years old; Ludwig Joseph died six months later at age two
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Born 1844-10-15.
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