Trivia

First book, "The Birth of Tragedy," published at the age of 27.

Earned his doctorate in at the age of 24, without examination and became a professor of classical philology.

At the age of 21 he applied for Swiss citizenship and revoked his Prussian citizenship. After his Swiss naturalization forms were rejected, he remained stateless for the rest of his life.

Abstained from alcohol and coffee.

Nietzsche was a lifelong but unwilling bachelor. In 1876, he proposed to Mathilde Trampedach. She turned him down, partly because she had only known him a few days, but mostly because he had sent his proposal in the form of a letter that was delivered by her boyfriend (and later husband) conductor Hugo von Senger. Six years later Nietzsche repeated the experiment with German-Russian author Lou Salome, once again sending his proposal through her then-lover, philosopher Paul Ree. Lou also rejected both Nietzsche's and Ree's proposals, and instead fell in love with poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

He coined the word "Super Man" in 1888. Fifty years later Jerry Siegle and Joe Shuster would use to the word in creating Superman.

He is the youngest person to have ever held the position of chair of classical psychology at Basel University.

Inducted into the International Mustache Hall of Fame in 2017 in the category Historical Figure.

His father, a Lutheran minister, died when Friedrich was 5 years old.

A Lyric from the One Republic song "Counting Stars" is "Everything that kills me makes me feel alive".

Became a professor of classical philology at the age of 24.

Lampooned to the giddy heights of hilarity in the Webcomic "Dead Philosophers in Heaven".

A philosopher.