The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844.
He is Honorary President of the British Nietzsche Society, and was for the Australian academic year 1991 Visiting Fellow at Trinity College, Melbourne..
Hoffmann, Lichtenberg and Theodor Fontane, many of these for the Penguin Classics.
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He has also translated works by, among others, Schopenhauer, Goethe, E.
Hollingdale has translated eleven of Nietzsche\'s books and published two books about him.
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His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended.
Known for saying that god is dead, Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards.
He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later.
In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire.
After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women.
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Prussia in 1844
