Hollingdale, — A Nietzsche Reader.

England, Penguin, (1987). VG PB. Nietzsche was born near Leipzig in 1844, son of a Lutheran clergyman & when only 24 was appointed chair of classical. philology at Basle University. He retired because of ill health, wrote, and in 1889 became insane & remained in a state of mental & physical paralysis until his death in 1900.