Philosopher · Age of revolutions and empire · Germany
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844–1900
German thinker who announced the death of God and demanded a revaluation of all values. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and the Genealogy of Morals made him philosophy's great stylist and destroyer. He collapsed in 1889 and lived 1844 to 1900.
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- Born
- 1844, Röcken, Germany.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Friedrich Nietzsche
- Died
- 1900, Weimar, Germany, after eleven years of mental collapse.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Friedrich Nietzsche
- School
- None; the critic of all schools.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Friedrich Nietzsche
- Known for
- God is dead, the will to power, the Übermensch, master and slave morality, and the eternal recurrence.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Friedrich Nietzsche
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