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Friedrich Nietzsche

1844 - 1900

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philologist, turning to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, Nietzsche became the youngest professor to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879, and in the following decade he completed much of his core writing. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Nietzsche is the 16th most popular philosopher (down from 12th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Germany and the most popular German Philosopher.

Nietzsche was a German philosopher who is most famous for his idea of the Übermensch.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche ranks 16 out of 1,267. Before him are Laozi, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Baruch Spinoza, Niccolò Machiavelli, Augustine of Hippo, and Francis Bacon. After him are Thales of Miletus, Heraclitus, Thomas Aquinas, Diogenes, Erasmus, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

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Among people born in 1844, Friedrich Nietzsche ranks 1. After him are Karl Benz, Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Paul Verlaine, Bernadette Soubirous, Mehmed V, Ilya Repin, Henri Rousseau, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Menelik II. Among people deceased in 1900, Friedrich Nietzsche ranks 1. After him are Oscar Wilde, Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Steinitz, Max Müller, Umberto I of Italy, Ivan Aivazovsky, John Ruskin, Vladimir Solovyov, Étienne Lenoir, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and John Sherman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Friedrich Nietzsche ranks 11 out of 7,253. Before him are Martin Luther (1483), Karl Marx (1818), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), and Johannes Gutenberg (1394). After him are Charlemagne (748), Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837), Albrecht Dürer (1471), Johannes Kepler (1571), George Frideric Handel (1685), and Joseph Goebbels (1897).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Friedrich Nietzsche ranks 1. After him are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Friedrich Engels (1820), Martin Heidegger (1889), Hannah Arendt (1906), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Karl Jaspers (1883), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), and Jürgen Habermas (1929).

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