October 15, 1844: The Philosopher Who Announced the Death of God

On October 15, 1844, Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Rocken, in the Prussian province of Saxony, the son of a Lutheran pastor. He became professor of classical philology at Basel at the age of 24, wrote books that were mostly ignored during his working life, and collapsed in 1889. He died in 1900, aged 55.