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Nietzsche, Friedrich

2023; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-031-19546-4_31

2198-9850

Matthias Kaufmann,

Nietzsche was born on 15 October 1844 in Röcken, in what is today Saxony-Anhalt. His father, a Lutheran priest, died in 1849, and Nietzsche grew up with his mother, his sister, his grandmother, and two paternal aunts. He stayed with them until he was accepted at the elite Landesschule Pforta in 1858. Later he studied classical philology in Bonn and Leipzig and at 24 years of age became professor of classical philology at the University of Basel in 1869. He held this position for 10 years, before his declining health forced him to relinquish it. He spent much of the next 10 years travelling through Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and France, with frequent stays in Sils Maria. While staying in Turin in 1889, he suffered a mental breakdown and remained mentally ill until his death on 25 August 1900 in Weimar, where he was cared for by his mother and later by his sister Elisabeth.