Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Friedrich Nietzsche born as the son of a Lutheran pastor and a devout hausfrau. Rejecting his father’s faith, Nietzsche became a lifelong rebel against Christianity. “In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross”, he wrote in DER ANTICHRIST . He was a German philosopher and critic of culture, who influenced a number of the major writers and philosophers of the 20th century Germany and France. Before and after the rise and fall of the Nazis, he was widely misrepresented as an anti-Semite and a woman hater, and many philosophers found it difficult to take his writings seriously.