Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, often Frenchified in [nit) is a German philosopher and philologist born October 15, 1844 at Röcken, Prussia, near Leipzig, and died August 25, 1900 in Weimar (Germany). This article is a biography of the philosopher. For the article about his thoughts, see main article: ...

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, often Frenchified in [nit) is a German philosopher and philologist born October 15, 1844 at Röcken, Prussia, near Leipzig, and died August 25, 1900 in Weimar (Germany). This article is a biography of the philosopher. For the article about his thoughts, see main article: Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born in Röcken, Prussia, October 15, 1844, in a pastoral Lutheran family. His father, Karl-Ludwig, born in 1813, and his grandfather had taught theology. Nietzsche's father, who educated him a member of the Prussian royal family, was a protégé of Frederick William IV. But the disease (severe headaches) forced him to seek a parish in the region of his family to Naumburg. Karl-Ludwig and his wife, Franziska (1826 - 1897), moved to Röcken. They had two son, Friedrich Ludwig and Joseph (February 27, 1848 - January 4, 1850), and a daughter, Elisabeth Nietzsche (July 18, 1846). In August 1848, the father of Nietzsche had a fall and banged his head against the stone steps of a porch. He died a year later, mind astray, July 30, 1849 Some time later, in January 1850 the brother of Nietzsche died in turn: "By that time, I dreamed that I heard the organ in the church sadly resonate as funerals. And as I was looking for the cause of this, a grave was opened quickly and my father appeared walking in his shroud. He crossed the church and returned with a small child in her arms. In the morning, I told this dream to my beloved mother. Soon after, my little brother Joseph became ill, he had hysterics and died in a few hours.