Friedrich Nietzsche (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Friedrich Nietzsche (NEE-chuh), who proclaimed in his philosophy that human beings could rise beyond good and evil and leave behind the slave morality of Christianity, was the son of a Lutheran pastor in Saxony. He was christened Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche to honor the king of Prussia, Frederick William IV, on whose birthday, October 15, he was born in 1844.
When Nietzsche was four years old, his father injured himself falling on some stone steps and died after a year of mental and physical illness. For years Friedrich was disturbed by the idea that he might inherit insanity...
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