“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” —Freedrich Nietzsche

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Profession(s) | Composer | Cultural Critic | Greek Scholar | Latin Scholar | Philologist | Philosopher | Poet | 

Born: October 15, 1844, Died: August 25, 1900

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. He resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life, and he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and a complete loss of his mental faculties. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897, and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and died in 1900. (Source + full bio: Wikipedia.org)