Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, and prose stylist whose ideas detonated across the twentieth century like delayed-action bombs. The son of a Lutheran pastor, he became a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel at the astonishing age of twenty-four, before abandoning academia for a wandering life of writing, illness, and solitude in the boarding houses of Switzerland and Italy. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Thus Spake Zarathustra.