About Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a philosopher and writer from the Kingdom of Prussia whose academic life began in classical philology. His rise was remarkably swift: the University of Basel made him Professor of Classical Philology in 1869, when he was only 24. Persistent ill health forced him to give up the post a decade later, in 1879.
From then on he wrote independently, often alone and short of money, drifting between Switzerland, Italy, and the south of France in hopes that a better climate would ease his ailments. The decade that followed proved his most productive: much of the core of his writing was finished during these itinerant years.
In 1889, at 44, Nietzsche suffered a neurological breakdown followed by the total loss of his mental faculties, along with paralysis and vascular dementia. He spent his final 11 years in the care of his mother and then his sister. Since his death, his thought has generated both a vast scholarly literature and enduring popular fascination.
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