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 Born in Röcken, Prussia in 1844. Nietzsche's father, who died when he was five, was a Lutheran minister, as was his grandfather.

 Attended a boarding school in Pforta, then studied classical philology at the Universities of Bonn and Leipzig.

 Discovered the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer in 1865.

 Met the composer Richard Wagner in Leipzig 1868.

 At 24 was made a professor at the University of Basle in classical philology.

 Following time as a medical orderly in the Franco‐Prussian War, wrote The Birth of Tragedy.

 Ill‐health forced him to resign his professorship. Living on a modest pension, he moved about Europe, writing from rented accommodation.

 Wrote and published Human, All Too Human, Daybreak, and the Gay Science in 1878–1882.

 Meets and breaks with Lou Andreas‐Salomé in 1882.

 Wrote and published Thus Spoke Zarathustra in four parts (1880–1884).

 Following Zarathustra, completed Beyond Good and Evil, The Genealogy of Morals, The Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and the autobiographical Ecce Homo.

 In 1889 suffered a mental breakdown in Turin. The cause is not clear, possibly syphilis or depression.

 Nursed by his mother, then his sister, until his death in Weimar in 1900.

Nietzsche in 1882, the year Zarathustra I was published. Photographer Gustav Schultze.