Dec 19, 2009
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche—named for the reigning king of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm IV, whose birthday was also October 15—was born in a parsonage. His father, Karl Ludwig Nietzsche, was a Lutheran pastor; his mother, Franziska Nietzsche (née Oehler), was the daughter of a Lutheran pastor. The union produced two other children, Elisabeth in 1846 and Joseph in 1848, who died shortly before his second birthday.
After the death of his father in 1849, Friedrich Nietzsche spent most of his early life surrounded by women: his mother, his sister, his...
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