Full Name: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Known As: Friedrich Nietzsche
Nickname: Didn't have a Nickname

Father: Karl Ludwig Nietzsche (1813-49, brain cancer)
Mother: Franziska Oehler (1826–97)
Sister: Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche (1846-1935)
Brother: Joseph Nietzsche (1848-1850)

Date of Birth: 15 October 1844
Birth Place: Röcken, Saxony, Germany
Date of Death: 25 August 1900 (aged 55)
Death Place: Weimar, Germany
Cause of Death: Cancer - Brain

Remains: Buried, Röcken Kirchhof, Röcken, Germany
Religion: Lutheran
Race or Ethnicity: White

Education: Domgymnasium, Schulpforta, University of Bonn, University of Leipzig
Occupation: Philosopher, Philologist
Region: Western philosophy
Nationality: Germany

Notable Ideas: Apollonian and Dionysian, God is dead, Eternal recurrence, Master-slave morality, Übermensch, Will to power, Ressentiment, Transvaluation of values, Perspectivism, Last Man, Amor fati, Nietzschean affirmation.

Influenced By: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Burckhardt, Emerson, Epicurus, Goethe, Hegel, Heraclitus, Hölderlin, Kant, Lange, Leibniz, Lichtenberg, Montaigne, Pascal, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Wagner, Winckelmann.

Major Writings: The Gay Science (1882), Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885), Beyond Good and Evil (1886), On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), The Antichrist (1888), Ecce Homo (1888), The Will to Power, Nietzsche contra Wagner (1895).

German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic and classical philologist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844–25 Aug 1900) is best known for his ideas like the death of God, Perspectivism, Übermensch, Eternal recurrence and Will to power. His writings influenced many famous political leaders like Theodore Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Charles de Gaulle and Richard Nixon. His writings also influenced many profound thinkers of the 20th century including D. H. Lawrence, Martin Heidegger, Leo Strauss, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, George Bernard Shaw, Max Weber and Gilles Deleuze.

Early Life & Childhood: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15 1844 in Rcken, Germany. His father, Karl Ludwig Nietzsche (1813-1849) was a Lutheran pastor and former teacher and his mother was named Franziska Oehler (1826–1897). When he was five, his father died of a minor brain ailment. Nietzsche started his education at a boy's school and then a private school. In 1854, he began to attend Pforta in Naumburg. He became acquainted with the work of the then almost unknown poet Friedrich Hölderlin. Within a few days, he showed his particular talents in music and language and was admitted to the internationally-renowned first-rate boarding school, Schulpforta. He continued his studies at Schulpforta from 1858 to 1864. Nietzsche joined the University of Bonn in 1864 to study theology and philology. Then he studied at the University of Leipzig. In Leipzig, he also struck up a friendship with composer Richard Wagner. In 1865, Nietzsche thoroughly studied the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and was inspired to read Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung then found himself attracted to philosophy. In 1867 he was inducted into the Prussian artillery division in Naumburg for one year of voluntary service. But after a horse accident in March 1868, he left the service and rejoined his studies.

Personal Life: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche never married though he was a proposed to Lou Salomé. His personal life is unknown. His scholar Joachim Köhler said Nietzsche may have had a romantic relationship as well as a friendship with Paul Rée who influenced him in dismissing the pessimism in his early writings in 1876. He came from a German Lutheran family and his religion was also Lutheran.

Later Life & Death: In 1869, at the age of twenty-four Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was appointed to the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. He also served in the Prussian army during the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871 as a medical orderly. In 1872 he published his first book The Birth of Tragedy. From 1873 to 1876, Nietzsche published separately four long essays: David Strauss: the Confessor and the Writer, On the Use and Abuse of History for Life, Schopenhauer as Educator, and Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. In 1878, Nietzsche published Human, All Too Human which dealt with a wide range of themes of right from metaphysics to morality and from religion to sexes. In 1879, he had to resign his position at the University of Basel after declining in health. Due to illness, he travelled to many cities and worked as an independent author until 1889. During this time he published Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885), Beyond Good and Evil (1886), On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), Twilight of the Idols (1888), The Antichrist (1888) and Ecce Homo (1888). On January 3, 1889, Nietzsche suffered a mental collapse. He died on 25 August 1900 and was buried at Röcken Kirchhof in Röcken, Germany.