Friedrich Nietzsche, born on 15 October 1844 in Röcken near Lützen, was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. He died on 25 August 1900 in Weimar, after experiencing pneumonia and multiple strokes.
Nietzsche is considered to be one of the great thinkers of the 19th century who was far ahead of his time. His ambiguous work met with equally exuberant veneration as well as vehement rejection. The confrontation with the life and work of the great philosopher continues unabated more than 100 years after his demise. Nietzsche found little recognition during his lifetime, but he became the world's most widely read philosophical author after his death.
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