Footage of Nietzsche’s Final Days

in Philosophy | December 7th, 2008 4 Comments

Nietzsche’s final days weren’t ones that you’d wish on anyone. Some biographers speculate that he contracted syphilis, which eventually triggered his decline into madness in 1899. Two strokes followed, then pneumonia and it was all over in August, 1900. The footage below is apparently from 1899, and we’re now adding it to our YouTube Favorites, which currently has 399. Who wants to put it over 400?
 

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  1. Arthur Fried says . . . | December 8, 2008 / 7:19 pm

    Thanks for the film of Nietzsche’s last days. I must admit, he was not one of the first 100 thousand or so people I ever expected to see on film. Does anyone know who took the pictures?

  2. stbo says . . . | December 21, 2008 / 6:32 am

    not real it, is really just a digital manipulation of some well-known photographs

  3. iblsltmpou says . . . | May 12, 2009 / 9:25 pm

    1) It is definitely digital manipulation 2) Nietzsche’s mental breakdown was in 1889 not 1899. He spent 11 years infirmed.

  4. 45 Great Cultural Icons Revisited | Open Culture says . . . | November 21, 2010 / 11:56 pm

    [...] Footage of Nietzsche’s Final Days (May be bogus) [...]

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