25/10/2023
/ Friedrich Nietzsche /
"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
"Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 45, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900, after many strokes and pneumonia. Nietzsche's writing spans philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism, and fiction while displaying a fondness for aphorism and irony."
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Born: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, October 15, 1844, Röcken, Saxony, Prussia, German Confederation
Died: August 25, 1900, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany
Alma mater: University of Bonn, Leipzig University.
