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- NAME: Friedrich Nietzsche
- OCCUPATION: Philosopher, Scholar
- BIRTH DATE: October 15, 1844
- DEATH DATE: August 25, 1900
- EDUCATION: Domgymnasium, Schulpforta, University of Bonn, University of Leipzig
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Röcken, 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 October 15, 1844 in Röcken, Germany. His family was Lutheran. He was highly educated in theology and philology and became a professor in 1869. He contracted dysentery and diphtheria during the Franco-Prussian War where he served as a medical orderly, and where he witnessed the brutality of war first-hand.
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