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1844–1900
A fiercely original German thinker, he wrote with unusual intensity about morality, culture, religion, and the ways people create meaning. His books still feel alive because they challenge readers rather than comfort them.

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by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Born in 1844 in Röcken, Prussia, he studied classical philology and became a professor at the University of Basel while still very young. Although trained as a scholar of the ancient world, he became one of the most influential modern philosophers, known for bold, probing books that questioned accepted ideas about truth, morality, religion, and culture.
His major works include The Birth of Tragedy, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morality, and The Gay Science. Writing in a style that mixed argument, aphorism, and poetry, he explored ideas that later shaped existentialism, psychology, literary criticism, and modern philosophy more broadly.
Years of poor health marked much of his adult life, and after a mental collapse in 1889 he never fully recovered. He died in 1900, but his reputation grew dramatically after his death, and he remains one of the most widely read and debated thinkers of the nineteenth century.