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Friedrich Nietzsche

フリードリヒ・ニーチェ　/　ふりーどりひ・にーちぇ

Philosopher from Germany

October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900　・　Röcken, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Saxony-Anhalt
philosopher
poet
writer

My Take

Nietzsche is the philosopher I return to when life flattens out. People quote the death of God as nihilism, but I read him as the opposite: a man desperately trying to teach us how to affirm life without borrowed crutches. A prodigy professor at twenty-four, undone by illness, writing masterpieces like Thus Spoke Zarathustra in solitude while almost nobody read them; his biography is amor fati lived out loud. What moves me most is that he collapsed before his fame arrived, never knowing he had won. Few writers make suffering feel this generative, and I distrust anyone who claims to have fully understood him.

Overview

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) 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.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Friedrich Nietzsche
Name (Japanese): フリードリヒ・ニーチェ
Reading: ふりーどりひ・にーちぇ
Born: October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Libra / Dragon
Origin: Röcken, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Blood type: Private
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Occupation: philosopher / poet / writer / composer / pedagogue

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: University of Bonn

3. Relationships

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Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

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5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role
Notable work	Thus Spoke Zarathustra	—
Notable work	The Birth of Tragedy	—
Notable work	Untimely Meditations	—
Notable work	On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life	—
Notable work	Schopenhauer as Educator	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%92%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7

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