Friedrich Nietzsche - Polish or German ?

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhəlm ˈniːtʃə]) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for metaphor and aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism.

Nietzschean ideas exercised a major influence on several prominent European philosophers, including Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre. In the Anglo-American tradition, the scholarship of Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale rehabilitated Nietzsche as a philosopher, and analytic philosophers such as Alexander Nehamas and Brian Leiter continue to study him today.

Even by virtue of my descent, I am granted an eye beyond all merely local, merely nationally conditioned perspectives; it is not difficult for me to be a "good European." On the other hand, I am perhaps more German than present-day Germans, mere citizens of the German Reich, could possibly be—I, the last anti-political German. And yet my ancestors were Polish noblemen: I have many racial instincts in my body from that source—who knows? [...] When I consider how often I am addressed as a Pole when I travel, even by Poles themselves, and how rarely I am taken for a German, it might seem that I have been merely externally sprinkled with what is German.

“I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman, without a single drop of bad blood, certainly not German blood."

Because he said so?

His own choice made him Polish ? Maybe we should use his grandfather name Niecki ?

Is he Polish or German ?

He didn't like Germans for sure.

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There were two other children in the house. One was a boy, Josef, who was named after the Duke of Altenburg, and died in infancy in 1850. The other was a girl, Therese Elisabeth Alexandra, who became in after years her brother's housekeeper, guardian angel and biographer. Her three names were those of the three noble children her father had grounded in the humanities. Elisabeth - who married toward middle age and is best known as Frau Förster-Nietzsche - tells us practically all that we know about the Nietzsche family and the private life of its distinguished son. ((1)) The clan came out of Poland, like so many other families of Eastern Germany, at the time of the sad, vain wars. Legend maintains that it was noble in its day and Nietzsche himself liked to think so. The name, says Elisabeth, was originally Nietzschy. "Germany is a great nation," Nietzsche would say, "only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.... I am proud of my Polish descent. I remember that in former times a Polish noble, by his simple veto, could overturn the resolution of a popular assembly. There were giants in Poland in the time of my forefathers." He wrote a tract with the French title L'Origine de la famille de Nietzsche and presented the manuscript to his sister, as a document to be treasured and held sacred. She tells us that he was fond of maintaining that the Nietzsches had suffered greatly and fallen from vast grandeur for their opinions, religious and political. He had no proof of this, but it pleased him to think so....

He didn't like Germans for sure.

and Kopernikus was black! :)

This is true.He made comments like ''Marx's sentence was too clever to have been written by a German'',or ''german mind is deep in beer''.

In 1883 he tried and failed to obtain a lecturing post at the University of Leipzig. It was made clear to him that, in view of the attitude towards Christianity and the concept of God expressed in Zarathustra, he had become in effect unemployable at any German University.

German citizens were making pro Polish uprises.
It is very interesting phenomen.

Lukasz, you will be banned again if you register another account.

I can't think of any German of today who would wish to be polish, sorry...

I don't know actually what you want to say with all that? Do you think this Commander in this battle (I've never heard of him btw) hated his people?

He considered himself Pole and thought that Poles were right he didn't hate his people.

cytuję Fryderyka Nietzschego:

And yet my ancestors were Polish noblemen: it is owing to them that I have so much race instinct in my blood-who knows? perhaps even the liberum veto. When I think of how often I have been accosted as a Pole when traveling, even by Poles themselves, and how seldom I have been taken for a German, it seems to me as if I belonged to those who have but a sprinkling of German in them.

cytuję Fryderyka Nietzschego:

I myself am still too much of a Pole not to resign from all other music apart from Chopin.

cytuję Fryderyka Nietzschego:

And with this I touch on the question of race. I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman, in whom there is no drop of bad blood, least of all German. When I look for my profoundest opposite, the incalculable pettiness of the instincts, I always find my mother and my sister—to be related to such canaille would be a blasphemy against my divinity.

cytuję Fryderyka Nietzschego:

However, even as a Pole I am an incredible atavism. One would have to go back centuries in order to find this noblest of races ever to exist on Earth exhibiting its instincts as pristinely as I exhibit them. Toward everything today that calls itself noblesse I possess a sovereign feeling of distinction,—I would not do the young German Kaiser [Wilhelm II] the honor of being my coachman.

cytuję Fryderyka Nietzschego:

Vita. I was born October 15, 1844, on the battlefield of Lützen. The first name I heard was that of Gustävus Adolphus [King of Sweden, who fell on the battlefield of Lützen in 1632.]. My ancestors were Polish nobility (Niëzky). The stock appears to have stood up well despite three German mothers. Abroad I usually pass for a Pole; just this last winter in Nice they had me down of the foreigners' list as Polish.

cytuję Fryderyka Nietzschego:

Germany is a great nation, only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.... I am proud of my Polish descent. I remember that in former times a Polish noble, by his simple veto, could overturn the resolution of a popular assembly. There were giants in Poland in the time of my forefathers.

cytuję Fryderyka Nietzschego:

I am more a Pole than I am God

I never heard of them...

can't think of any German of today who would wish to be polish, sorry

I don't know what are you talking about.

Of course you havn't. Why would German schools teach their good German students about famous Poles?

I believe this goes both ways....

Enough are coming over...

Polish and german people have been mixing with each other for over 1000+ years,

@Bratwurst Boy

Did you know that Berlin was an slavic settlement from the beginning, and that both the Chancellery of the Reich and the Reichspalast and aloot of other properties were owned by the Polish nobilty in Berlin before ww2, hurts doesn't it?

before the war destroyed so much!