Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher, classical philologist, and cultural critic who began his career as a professor at the University of Basel at age 24, publishing influential works like *The Birth of Tragedy* (1872). He resigned in 1879 due to health issues and entered a highly productive period, writing masterpieces such as *Thus Spoke Zarathustra* (1883–1885), *Beyond Good and Evil* (1886), and *On the Genealogy of Morals* (1887), challenging traditional morality, religion, and Western philosophy.[1][2][3]