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German philosopher, poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) had a significant impact on the development of modern philosophical thought. He began his professional life as a classical philologist and then shifted his focus to philosophy. At the age of 24, he was appointed to the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, a position he held until 1879 when he left due to the ongoing health issues that plagued him throughout his life. He wrote the bulk of his major works at this time. At the age of 44, he collapsed and lost all mental capacity due to paralysis and, most likely, vascular dementia. Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, his sister, took care of him after their mother passed away in 1897. The combination of Nietzsche's illness and many strokes led to his death in 1900.

A lover of aphorisms and irony, Nietzsche's work ranges from philosophical polemics to poetry, cultural critique, and fiction. His radical critique of truth in favour of perspectivism, his rejection of Christian morality and his theory of master-slave morality, his affirmation of life through art in the face of the "death of God" and the profound crisis of nihilism, the concept of Apollonian and Dionysian forces, and his characterization of the human subject as the expression of competing wills, collectively understood as the "I," are all central to his philosophy. His ideas on the Übermensch and endless reincarnation were equally groundbreaking at the time. Later in his career, he focused more on the individual's capacity for innovation in the pursuit of aesthetic well-being and the rejection of traditional moral standards. Art, philology, history, music, religion, tragedy, culture, and science were all represented in his oeuvre, which was influenced by Greek tragedy as well as Zoroaster, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Wagner, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.