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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [ii] (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. [14] He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy.
Beginning while Nietzsche was still alive, though incapacitated by mental illness, many Germans discovered his appeals for greater heroic individualism and personality development in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but responded to those appeals in diverging ways.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher Cause of death disputed, but syphilis or mercury poisoning from syphilis treatment are leading theories. Franz Schubert (1797–1828), German composer Cause of death disputed, but symptoms match to mercury poisoning from syphilis treatment. [10] Robert Schumann (1810–1856), German composer
1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche died after a mental breakdown. 1901 – Paul Rée fell to his death from a mountain. 1903 – Otto Weininger committed suicide by shooting himself. 1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann hanged himself. 1910 – Carlo Michelstaedter killed himself with a pistol he had in his house.
The treatise is considered an important work from Nietzsche's early creative period (see Friedrich Nietzsche bibliography). In it, he criticizes his academic contemporaries who, in his opinion, either overestimate or misjudge the importance of history. This work also anticipates Nietzsche's later themes and has received comparatively great ...
Yet, as soon as Nietzsche's work began to reach a wider audience, the question of whether or not he owed a debt of influence to Stirner was raised. As early as 1891 (while Nietzsche was still alive, though incapacitated by mental illness), Eduard von Hartmann went so far as to suggest that he had plagiarized Stirner. [5]
Friedrich Nietzsche lived in fear that his father's illness was an inheritable disease, and that he would some day suffer a similar fate. [5] Carl Ludwig's cause of death has been conjectured to be a brain tumor or tuberculosis, and the possibility of a heritable illness has been the subject of much speculation.
Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography (German: Nietzsche. Biographie seines Denkens) is a biography of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, written by Rüdiger Safranski and published by Carl Hanser Verlag in 2000. It focuses on the developments and changes of Nietzsche's philosophy, with little discussion of his personal life. The final ...