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Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 — 1900弗里德里希·尼采
German philosopher (1844–1900)
Born1844
BirthplaceRöcken
Fieldsphilosopher, poet, writer
The story, in brief.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 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. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
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A life in milestones.
Selected records from Wikidata. Ages are approximate; “c.” marks uncertain dates. This is a starting point for exploration, not a complete life history.
- 1844
- 1854~ age 10
- 1858~ age 14
- 1864~ age 20
- 1865~ age 21
- 1869~ age 25
- 1869~ age 25
- 1900~ age 56
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Sources retrieved 2026-11-01. Dates and milestones: Wikidata contributors, CC0 ↗. Biographical introduction: Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0. Ancient dates and traditional biographies may be disputed; consult the linked records.
Portrait: Friedrich Hermann Hartmann · Public domain · Original and attribution ↗. Display cropped and desaturated.
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