![]() ![]() ![]() Largely for health reasons, he gave up the professorship in 1879.Īlthough the brilliance of his insights is generally recognized, Nietzsche is not a philosopher who is easily understood. By the age of twenty-five, he was a full professor at the University of Basel, in Switzerland. He was a brilliant student, specializing in classical literature and philosophy at the University of Leipzig. (To avoid misunderstanding, we should note that Nietzsche was celibate nearly all his life.) At some time, he also contracted syphilis, the final stage causing insanity that persisted during the final decade of his life. While serving as a medical orderly in the Franco-Prussian War (1870), he contracted dysentery and diphtheria. ![]() (His controversial views on women are often attributed to this upbringing in so largely female a household.) He suffered from health problems throughout his life―especially migraine headaches and gastric pains. His father died while he was a young child―after which time he grew up in a household consisting of his mother, sister, grandmother, and two maiden aunts. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900 C.E.) was born in Prussia, the son of a Lutheran minister. ![]()
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