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Born October 15, 1844 • Germany
Died August 25, 1900 (aged 55) • Weimar • Germany
Notable Works “Beyond Good and Evil” • “Ecce Homo” • “Human, All-Too-Human” • “On the Genealogy of Morals” • “The Birth of Tragedy” • “The Gay Science“ • “The Will to Power” • “Thus Spake Zarathustra” • “Untimely Meditations”
Notable Family Members sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche
Subjects Of Study philosophy of art

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