Nietzsche

Nietzsche, FRIEDRICH WILHELM, born the son of a pastor at Röcken in Saxony, 15th October 1844, studied at Bonn and Leipzig, and obtained distinction by treatises on Theognis, on the origin of tragedy, &c. But from 1878 he began in a long series of works to expound a revolutionary philosophy denouncing all religion and treating all moral laws as a remnant of Christian superstition, cherishing the 'virtues of the weak.' His ideal, 'the overman,' is to be developed by giving unbridled freedom to the struggle for existence, will seek only his own power and pleasure, and knows nothing of pity. A translation by Tille of eight volumes of his works began in 1896 with Thus spake Zarathustra. His mind became unhinged, and in 1895 he became an inmate of an asylum. He died 26th August 1900.