German philosopher and renowned scholar Friedrich Nietzsche was born on 15 October 1944, in Rocken, Prussia- Germany. His father was Carl Ludwig Nietzsche and mother Franziska Nietzsche. His father was a Lutheran preacher, who died when Nietzsche was only four-years old. After his father's death Nietzsche family shifted to Naumburg, he studied in a preparatory school and after that he joined prestigious Schulpforts School. He studied in University of Bonn and Leipzig, he was interested in philology, literature, linguistics and history. He did job as a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. His first book' The Birth of Tragedy' was published in 1872 and 'Human, All Too Human' in 1878. Nietzsche believed in realities of life, he glorified the individuals and culture. He openly challenged the basics of Christianity and conventional ethics. He is famous for his thought 'God is dead'. At the early age of 55 years, on 25 August 1900 Nietzsche died. His popular works - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Anti - Christ, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Gay Science, The Birth of Tragedy etc.
