Friedrich Nietzsche
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- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Biography
Friedrich Nietzsche (NEE-chuh) was born in 1844 in the small Prussian town of Röcken, near Leipzig. The son of a Lutheran pastor, he was given the name Friedrich Wilhelm in honor of King Frederick William IV, whose birthday was the same as his. He had one sister, Elisabeth, and a brother who died early in childhood. When Nietzsche was just four years old, his father died from a brain injury resulting from a fall. The family then moved to Naumburg, where they lived with his paternal grandmother and his father’s two unmarried sisters.
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