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  • Nietzsche Had Only One Romantic Relationship, Which Remained Disastrously Platonic on Random Things About The Tortured, Fascinating Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

    (#2) Nietzsche Had Only One Romantic Relationship, Which Remained Disastrously Platonic

    It is ironic that Nietzsche once famously stated, "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent," as he never married and experienced only one platonic romance that went utterly unrequited. On April 25, 1882, he was introduced by a former student and philosopher, Paul Ree, to 21-year-old Lou-Andreas Salome at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Nietzsche greeted the attractive woman with the phrase, "From what stars have we fallen together here?" Salome, a bit more grounded, replied, "I came from Zurich." Within one week, the socially inept Nietzsche not only proposed marriage, but did so through Paul Ree, who was also interested in Salome. Salome tactfully declined, but the hapless Nietzsche would propose two more times before finally catching on that Lou really wasn't interested.

    Nietzsche initially had a sense of humor about the situation and naively clung to the original notion of the threesome's association - a philosophical commune. He arranged the famous photograph of Ree and himself tethered to a cart being symbolically lead by Lou Salome. Throughout the summer and fall of 1882, Nietzsche would continue this hapless courtship until Ree and Salome moved in together in Berlin. By the following year, Nietzsche was bitterly denouncing the couple to anyone who would listen.      

  • Nietzsche Died In 1900, 33 Years Before Hitler Became Politically Powerful on Random Things About The Tortured, Fascinating Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

    (#11) Nietzsche Died In 1900, 33 Years Before Hitler Became Politically Powerful

    Friedrich Nietzsche died three years after he was moved from his mother's home in Naumburg to his sister's home in Weimar - the same house that would eventually contain the Nietzsche Archive. This was 23 years before Hitler would become politically relevant, and 33 years before he would officially gain control of the German government. 

    Nevertheless, Nietzsche has been irreparably associated with the anti-Semitic ideologies of  Hitler and the Nazis. Following World War II and the partition of Germany, the director of the Nietzsche Archive was disappeared into a Soviet gulag and Nietzsche's works were officially banned in the Iron Curtain countries, including East Germany. It was not until reunification in 1991 that the Archive was reopened and Nietzsche's works became available in the region where the philosopher was raised. One final indignity that has not yet been rectified was the reburial of Nietzsche following the death of Elizabeth in 1935. His coffin was removed from its prominent place between his two parents and placed nearby, while Elizabeth was buried and remains in the more high profile position.

  • Hitler Attempted To Use Nietzsche's Intellectual Perspective To Legitimize The Nazis on Random Things About The Tortured, Fascinating Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

    (#9) Hitler Attempted To Use Nietzsche's Intellectual Perspective To Legitimize The Nazis

    As enthusiastic as Elizabeth Nietzsche was about Hitler and the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler was just as eager to capitalize on his apparent Nietzsche-connection. He visited the Nietzsche Archive on numerous occasions, using it as an opportunity to associate himself with the ideas of a noted intellectual and philosopher. 

    Hitler incorporated the phrases "Ubermensch," or Superman, "Will to Power," and "Twilight of the Gods" into the Nazi lexicon and ideology propoganda, even though Nietzsche openly despised German nationalism, anti-semitism, and referred to a "Superman" as someone who would achieve ideal perfection through reason and artistic creation. That his ideas would have been used to justify the creation of a "Master Race" that would subjugate allegedly inferior peoples through militaristic brutality would have completely horrified Nietzsche. And because Germany perceived the Nazi party as a group of brutal thugs, Hitler craved the intellectual legitimacy that a link to Nietzsche would bestow.

  • After Nietzsche's Breakdown, He Lived In His Mother's Attic on Random Things About The Tortured, Fascinating Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

    (#5) After Nietzsche's Breakdown, He Lived In His Mother's Attic

    In his apartment, Nietzsche was sedated but continued to behave erratically, sending grandiose letters to Richard Wagner's wife, Cosima - with whom he had not communicated in years - and to his former teaching associates at the University of Basel, Franz Oberbeck and Jacob Burckhardt, and even to German chancellor, Otto von Bizmarck. These letters, known as the "Madness Letters" clearly indicated an unhinged mind. Prior to his breakdown, his landlady had heard him loudly playing the piano at night while dancing erratically in the nude.

    Familiar with his professional contacts in Basel, Nietzsche's landlord contacted Franz Oberbeck, who came and managed to get Nietzsche back to Basel after a harrowing train ride. Nietzsche's mother, Franziska, then took custody of him and committed her son to an asylum at Jena, but eventually it was acknowledged that nothing could be done. Mute and with no ability to write coherently, Nietzsche lived in his hometown of Naumburg, Germany, on the third floor of his mother's home until her death in 1897.

  • Nietzsche Became A Professor At The Age Of 25 - An Unheard Of Achievement on Random Things About The Tortured, Fascinating Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

    (#1) Nietzsche Became A Professor At The Age Of 25 - An Unheard Of Achievement

    Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed as a full professor of philology at the University of Basel at the age of 25. In the fall of 1868, Nietzsche's professor and mentor at the University of Leipzig, Friedrich Ritschl, had recommended Nietzsche for a vacancy at the University of Basel, despite the fact that Nietzsche had not yet finished his doctoral studies. 

    The University of Basel conferred the degree sight unseen based on Ritschl's glowing review; Nietzsche began teaching right away in the summer of 1869 and was quickly promoted to a full professorship - a rather remarkable accomplishment.

  • Nietzsche's Breakdown Was Diagnosed As Syphilis, Probably Contracted During The Franco-Prussian War on Random Things About The Tortured, Fascinating Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

    (#6) Nietzsche's Breakdown Was Diagnosed As Syphilis, Probably Contracted During The Franco-Prussian War

    Although revisionist historians have sought out other explanations, at the time of his confinement in a mental asylum in 1890 after his mental breakdown, Nietzsche was diagnosed with third stage syphilis. This explains why, following his release into his mother's custody in 1890, nothing further was done to try to improve Nietzsche's condition, which was believed to be incurable and degenerative.

    It is believed that the disease was contracted while Nietzsche served as a cavalryman during the Franco-Prussian War. Modern historians have attempted to explain Nietzsche's condition as the result of cancer or even various extremely rare neurological disorders.

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Friedrich Nietzsche was the most famous philosopher and poet of the 19th century who had a great influence on the development of philosophy. H literature works have provided extensive criticism and discussion in the fields of religion, philosophy, and science, etc. At the age of 24, he already became a professor of classical literature in the German-speaking of the University of Basel, specializing in ancient Greek and Latin literature. 

Unfortunately, he resigned due to health problems in 1879 and has been suffering from mental illness ever since, he breakdown in 1889 has never recovered. He firmly affirmed the value of humans and the importance of independent thinking but failed to overcome mental illness. The random tool introduced 12 details about his miserable but fascinating life.

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