Søren Kierkegaard was born #onthisday in 1813. He was a philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.
Frank Auerbach
Frank Helmut Auerbach was born #onthisday in 1931. He is a German-British painter, born in Germany, and has been a naturalised British subject since 1947. He is considered one of the leading names in the School of London, with fellow artists Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was born #onthisday in 1759 in London yet despite her inauspicious beginnings, she became a self-supporting bestselling international human-rights celebrity.
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche , the German philosopher, was born #onthisday in 1844.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born 15 October 1844 and was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, writer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy.
Nietzsche resigned his chair at the University of Basel in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In his 1883 book Thus Spoke Zarathustra (German: Also Sprach Zarathustra), Nietzsche has his character Zarathustra posit the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself. The Übermensch represents a shift from otherworldly Christian values and manifests the grounded human ideal.
In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900.