Nietzsche, Friedrich
From Astro-Databank
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| Birthname | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm | ||
| born on | 15 October 1844 at 10:00 (= 10:00 AM ) | ||
| Place | Rocken, Germany, 51n15, 12e08 | ||
| Timezone | LMT m12e08 (is local mean time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   22°07'   09°03 Asc. 29°14'
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Biography
German philosopher who is considered the most influential voice since Kant and Hegel. He taught classes until 1879, then spent the next ten years in solitude. These years were spent writing his major works "Thus Spake Zarathustra" and "Twilight of the Gods."
Nietzsche came from a long line of Lutheran pastors and was destined to follow in the footsteps of his clergyman dad, who died after 11 months of suffering from a serious illness, when the boy was age five. Shortly after his dad's death, his younger brother died, leaving him to live with his mother, younger sister, grandmother and two aunts. He received a strict Christian upbringing as his mom was also the child of a Protestant minister, and probably carried a great guilt from his incestuous relationship with his sister. He suffered continually from severe headaches, sore throats, and rheumatic ailments as a kid, especially during his school days. At age 23, recognized for his brilliant work, he was appointed to the chair of philology at the University of Basel, 2/13/1868 and later was granted to Doctorate without examination, 3/23/1868. He eventually dropped his theological studies to take up classical philology, and later philosophy.
His dealing with the opposite sex were consistently awkward. He made a precipitous and impulsive proposal to Mathilde Trampendach on 4/11/1876, two hours after meeting her. The winter of 1882 and summer 1883 were probably among the loneliest and most desperate period in his life, the time when he began his "Thus Spake Zarathustra."
In 1879, at the age of 35, Nietzsche resigned his post a professor of classical philology at Basel University and began a decade of travels across Europe, during which he wrote his greatest books. He had a desire to define himself as a European and looked forward to a time when the peoples of Europe would define themselves as Europeans rather than as citizens of particular countries. It might have been a way for him to distance himself from the militaristic, bureaucratic, bourgeois Germany of Bismarck, whom he abhorred. He believed that history is a genealogy of geniuses, in which each genius created the mental world in which his successors live.
His mental degeneration, apparently caused by syphilis, began with megalomania. Nietzsche started to call himself a genius, the leading person of all millenniums and he claimed that all women loved him. He took on different identities - the Buddha, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Voltaire, Napoleon, Wagner - and danced naked in his room. In January 1889 he broke down in the street and tearfully embraced a horse which had been beaten. He was declared insane by doctors and taken back to Germany where he sat in a vegetative state until his death eleven years later, on 8/25/1900, Weimar, Germany.
Events
- Death, Cause unspecified 25 August 1900 (Age 55)
- Mental Health : Psychotic episode 1889 (GPI from syphilis)
- Social : Change of Lifestyle 1879 (Went into solitude and traveled)
- Social : Begin Travel 1879 (Began ten years of solitude and travel)
- Mental Health : Psychotic episode January 1889 (Broke down in street and hugged horse)
- Death of Father 1949 (Dad died after long illness)
- Work : New Career 13 February 1868 (Appointed to Chair at Basel)
- Relationship : Meet a significant person 11 April 1876 (Proposed two hours after meeting Mathilde)
- Relationship : Difficult period December 1882 (Lonliest period)
- Death of Father 30 July 1849 (Age five when dad died of illness)
- Family : Change residence 22 April 1869 (Entered Switzerland, where he became a citizen)
Source Notes
Lockhart quotes Modern Astrology, 11/1914, from "the Young Neitzsche," p.522
(LMR finds only "The Young Nietzsche" by Frederick R. Love which has NO data. Lyndoe gave 10:07 AM as "accepted data" in AA 7/1967.)
(Jon Dunn writes on email (ACT) "Robert von Heeren's German Database gives 09h11m28s UT, no source.) PT notes that The Taeger collection cites Lescaut quoting unspecified official record for 9:30 AM LMT/8:41 AM GMT
Categories
- Traits : Mind : Exceptional mind (Brilliant intellect)
- Notable : Book Collection : American Book
- Notable : Famous : Historic figure (Literary genius)
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : STD/Sexually transmitted (Syphilis)
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession
- Family : Childhood : Family traumatic event (Age five when dad and brother died)
- Family : Childhood : Sibling circumstances (Little brother died very young)
- Family : Childhood : Family large (Five kids)
- Passions : Sexuality : Incest perpetrator (With sister)
- Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Western (Christian, Protestant)
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Headaches, severe (Lifetime)
- Lifestyle : Social Life : Travel (Across Europe)
- Diagnoses : Psychological : Psychotic Episode (Declared insane (GPI))
- Diagnoses : Psychological : Multiple Personality (As a result of syphilis-induced insanity)
- Vocation : Writers : Religion/ Philosophy (Meanings of life and gods)
- Vocation : Education : Teacher (University of Basel)
- Family : Relationship : Married late/never (Never; relationships always difficult)
- Family : Parenting : Kids none
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Throat (Severe sore throats)
- Traits : Personality : Unique
- Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Philosopher/ Humanist (Philosopher)
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Autoimmune other (Rheumatic ailments as kid)
