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Friedrich Nietzsche was born in 1844 and died in 1900. He was a brilliant scholar who became Professor of Classical Philology in the University of Basel at the age of 25. He volunteered for army service during the Franco-Prussian war and served in the medical corps before being invalided out.
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Teichman, J. (1998). Friedrich Nietzsche. In: Teichman, J., White, G. (eds) An Introduction to Modern European Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26651-7_7
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