Friedrich Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844, in Röcken, Prussia. Both his grandfathers had been ordained into the Lutheran Church. His father Ludwig, also a minister, died in 1849, at the age of thirty-six, having sustained head injuries through a fall about a year previously. Nietzsche was five years old at the time of his father's death and was raised by his mother in a home that included his grandmother, two maiden aunts, and a sister.

During his childhood he seems to have developed an aversion to such things as piety, nationalism, bourgeois provincialism and domineering women. From 1858 he attended the academically distinguished Pforta boarding school where he began to suffer from the migraine attacks that were to be a burden to him for the rest of his life. He was also affected by having poor eyesight. Pforta had turned out many famous men in the past and was run along "Prussian" lines of discipline, piety, and hard work.

After (gladly) leaving Pforta in......

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Title: Friedrich Nietzsche (Biography)
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