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  • NAME: Friedrich Nietzsche
  • OCCUPATION: Scholar
  • BIRTH DATE: October 15, 1844
  • DEATH DATE: August 25, 1900
  • EDUCATION: Domgymnasium, Schulpforta, University of Bonn, University of Leipzig
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Rcken, Germany
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Weimar, Germany
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19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche radically questioned widely held cultural beliefs and is best known for his "God is dead" concept.

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Friedrich Nietzsche was born on Oct. 15. 2844 in Rcken, Germany. His family was Lutheran. He was highly educated in theology and philology and became a professor in 1869. He contracted dysentery and diphtheria while volunteering in the Franco-Prussian Wa

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