Hello HIVE,👋

So I recently created this new HIVE account not wanting the new year to lapse with my dream of joining this huge HIVE community remain just that.

I am a Junior taking Computer Science, and a huge lover of Philosophy and love spending time reading and trying to muse about the thoughts and philosophies of some of the greatest minds that existed.

As part of my practice or side projects to work on my Web Development skills, I have decided to create a few tribute sites for those thinkers who have influenced my life the most, as a way of trying to learn more about them, while also working on my skills and getting to share it with the world, who knows someone out there may get to see the tribute sites and learn something or even spark the curiosity to learn more.

to start with I will be sharing my tribute site of one of the greatest 19th Century philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche.

Here is a link to my codepen where I have my code hosted, you can check it out if you are interested in the what happens behind the scenes of what we call websites, it is just a beginner thingy, nothing much just pure HTML and some CSS.

See the Pen
Friedrich Nietzsche | Tribute Page by peete_rx (@peeter_x)
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Friedrich Nietzsche

A German Philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, writer and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on Modern Intellectual History.

Here is a timeline of Nietzsche's life:

• 1844 - He was born on 15^th October, in Röcken, Lützen, Germany.


• 1854 - He began to attend Domgynasium in Naumburg.


• 1858 - He was offered a scholarship to study at the internationally recognized Schulpforta where he studied up to 1864, as a result of his late father having worked for the state as a pastor, but not as a result of his academic competence.


• 1864 - He begun studying theology and classical philology at the University of Bonn in the hope of becoming a minister. After one semester he stopped his theological studies and lost his faith, greatly angering his mother.


• 1865 - At the age of 20 he wrote to his deeply religious sister Elisabeth a letter regarding his loss of faith. The letter contains the following statement:

  "Hence the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire..."

  -- Friedrich Nietzsche

  He also thoroughly studied the works of Arthur Schopenhauer, owing the awakening of his philosophical interest to reading Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation.


• 1866 - He read Friedrich Albert Lange's History of Materialism. Lange's anti-materialistic philosophy, and the general rebellion against tradition and authority intrigued him greatly.


• 1867 - He signed up for one year of voluntary service with the Prussian artillery division in Naumburg.


• 1868 - While jumping into the saddle of his horse, Nietzsche struck his chest against the pommel, tearing two muscles in his left side, which left him exhausted and unable to walk for months. This led him to turn his attention to his studies completing them.


• 1869 - At the age of 24, before completing his doctorate or receiving a teaching certificate he become a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland through the help of Professor Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl.
  - He was also awarded an honorary doctorate by Leipzig University in March the same year, again with Ritschl's support.
  (To this day, he is still among the youngest of the tenured Classics professors on record.)


• 1870 - His projected doctoral thesis "Contribution toward the Study and the Critique of the Sources of Diogenes Laertius" examined the origins of ideas of Diogenes Laërtius. Though never submitted it was later published as a congratulatory publication in Basel.
  - He also served in the Prussian forces during the Franco-Prussian War as a medical orderly, where he experienced much and witnessed the traumatic effects of battle, also contracting diphtheria and dysentery.


• 1872 - He published his first book, The Birth of Tragedy. However his colleagues expressed little enthusiasm for the work in which Nietzsche eschewed the classical philological method in favour of a more speculative approach.


• 1873 - He began to accumulate notes that would be posthumously published as Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks.
  - Between 1873 and 1876, he published four separate long essays:
  
  
  • David Strauss: the Confessor and the Writer.
  • On the Use and Abuse of History for Life.
  • Schopenhauer as Educator.
  • Richard Wagner in Bayreuth.
  
  
  Which later appeared in a collected edition under the title Untimely Meditations.


• 1878 - He published Human, All Too Human, a book of aphorisms ranging from metaphysics to morality to religion.


• 1879 - Due to a significant decline in health, Nietzsche had to resign his position at Basel.
  - Living off his pension from Basel and aid from friend, he travelled frequently to find climates more conducive to his helath and lived until 1889 as an independent author in different cities. He spent many summers in Sils Maria near St. Moritz in Switzerland. Spent his winters in the Italian cities of Genoa, Rapallo, and Turin, and the French city of Nice.


• 1882 - He published the first part of The Gay Science.
  - In Rome in April he met Lou Andreas-Salomé, through Malwida von Meysenbug and Paul Rée, who he is believed to have fallen instantly in love with, asking Rée to propose marriage to Salomé on his behalf which she rejected. He was nonetheless content to join together with Rée and Salomé touring through Switzerland and Italy together, planning their commune.
  - His sister Elisabeth on realizing Nietzsche's continued tries to woo Salomé become determined to get him away from the
  immoral woman,
  writing letters to the families of Salomé and Rée to disrupt the plans for the commune.
  - In November, Salomé and Rée ditched Nietzsche, leaving for Stibbe (today Zdbowo in Poland), without any plans to meet again.


• 1883 - Amidst renewed bouts of illness, living in near-isolation after a falling out with his mother and sister regarding Salomé, he fled to Rapallo, where he wrote the fisrt part of Also Sprach Zarathustra in only 10 days.
  - He tried and failed to obtain a lecturing post at the University of Leipzig, according to him this was due to his
  attitude towards Christianity and the concept of God.


• 1885 - With the new style of Zarathustra, his work become even more alienating, and the market received it only to the degree required by politeness. He recognized this and maintained his solitude, though often complaining. His books remained largely unsold, leading him to print only 40 copies of the fourth part of Zarathustra, distributing a fraction of them among close friends.


• 1886 - He broke with his publisher Ernst Schmeitzner, disgusted by his antisemitic opinions.
  - Printed Beyond Good and Evil at his own expense, also acquiring the publication rights for his earlier works. Over the next yer he issued second editions of the
  
  
  • The Birth of Tragedy
  • Human, All Too Human
  • Daybreak
  • The Gay Science
  
  
  with new prefaces placing the body of his work in a more coherent perspective.


• 1886 - His sister Elisabeth married the antisemite Bernhard Forster and travelled to Paraguay to found Nueva Germania, a Germanic colony - a plan Nietzsche responded to with mocking laughter.


• 1887 - He wrote the polemic On the Genealogy of Morality.


• 1888 - Seeming to have abandoned the idea of a new work with the title The Will to Power, he used some of the draft passages to compose Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist. - After his 44th Birthday, he decided to write the autobiography Ecce Homo. In its preface - which suggest he was well aware of the interpretive difficulties his work would generate - he declares,
  Hear me! For I am such and such a person. Above all, do not mistake me for someone else.


• 1889 - On 3rd January Nietzsche suffered a mental breakdown, in the streets of Turin. What happened remains unkown, but an often-repeated tale from shortly after his death states that he witnessed the flogging of a horse at the other end of the Piazza Carlo Alberto, ran to the horse, threw his arms around its neck to protect it, then collapsed to the ground.


• 1890 - The historian Julius Langbehn attempted to cure Nietzsche without success, his secretiveness eventually discrediting him. Franziska removed him from the clinic and brought him to her home in Naumburg.


• 1893 - His sister <span="char">Elisabeth returned from Nueva Germania in Paraguay following the suicide of her husband. She studied Nietzsche's work and piece by piece took control of their publication.


• 1897 - After the death of Franziska, Nietzsche lived in Weimar, where his sister cared for him and allowed visitors to meet her uncommunicative brother.


• 1898 - Between that year and 1899 Nietzsche suffered at least two stokes, which partially paralyzed him, leaving him unable to speak or walk.


• 1900 - After contracting pneumonia in mid-August, Nietzsche had another stroke during the night of 24^th - 25^th August, and died at about noon on 25^th August.

"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."

--Friedrich Nietzsche

If you have the time, definitely read more about Nietzsche in his Wikipedia entry

A quite long entry, thank you to those who take the time to check it out, I greatly appreciate your time 🙏.

sources:

• https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche