Friedrich Nietzsche was born in 1844 in Röcken (Saxony),
Germany. He studied classical philology at the universities
of Bonn and Leipzig, and in 1869 was appointed to the chair of
classical philology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Ill
health led him to resign his professorship ten years later.
His works include The Birth of Tragedy, Thus Spoken Zarathustra,
Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Case of
Wagner, Twilight of the Idols, the Antichrist, Nietzsche contra
Wagner, and Ecce Homo. He died in 1900. The Will to Power, a
selection from his notebooks, was published posthumously.
Walter Kaufmann was born in Freiburg, Germany, in
1921, came to the United Stated in 1939, and studied at Williams
College and Harvard University. In 1947 he joined the faculty
of Princeton University, where he was Professor of Philosophy until
he died in September 1980. He held many visiting professorships,
include Nietzsche, Critique of Religion and Philosophy, From
Shakespeare to Existentialism, The Faith of a Heretic, Cain and
Other Poems, and Hegel, as well as verse translations of Goethe's
Faust and Twenty German Poets. He also translated all of the works
by Nietzsche listed above. In addition to On the Genealogy of
Morals and Ecce Homo the following appear in Vintage Books: Beyond
Good and Evil and, in one volume, The Birth of Tragedy and The Case
of Wagner.
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