It was in Leipzig that he made two acquaintances that influenced him profoundly: Arthur Schopenhauer, through his masterwork The World as Will and Representation, and Richard Wagner, whose sister was a friend of the wife of one of Nietzsche’s professors. Nietzsche’s university education began in 1864 at Bonn, and continued at Leipzig, focusing upon classical studies. (His compositional efforts continued through his twenties.) While distinguishing himself there in his studies, Nietzsche also avidly pursued his musical interests, becoming a fine pianist and composing a considerable amount of music, including numerous Lieder and works for the piano. His precocious scholastic excellence earned him a scholarship to the prestigious classics-oriented academy Schulpforta. It was during his childhood there that his lifelong loves of music and literature developed and deepened. Upon his father’s early death in 1849, his mother was obliged to relocate with him and his sister to the nearby town of Naumburg. His father was a Lutheran pastor in the tiny village of Röcken.
He sought to revitalize and reorient philosophy, in ways intended to free it from stultifying aspects of its past, and attune it to the demands of the pressing tasks awaiting it.įriedrich Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844, and was raised and educated in provincial Saxony (in what is now eastern Germany). Yet he left a rich legacy of challenges and contributions to philosophy, the importance and continuing relevance of which are becoming ever more apparent. His productive life, moreover, was greatly hindered by debilitating health problems, and was cut lamentably short by a complete physical and mental collapse (from which he never recovered) in 1889, when he was but 44.
He was never an “academic philosopher” either by education or by profession, and his influence in the philosophical community did not begin to be felt until long after his death in 1900, and then was clouded by the travesty of his appropriation by the Nazis. He also has become one of its most diversely influential thinkers.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900 ce) is one of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy.
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