Historical Dictionary of Nietzscheanism, Second Edition
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loginFriedrich Nietzsche was born into a Lutheran pastor’s family on 15 October 1844. His paternal grandmother in particular had mixed in high circles. His young mother, Franziska Nietzsche—just 17 when she married his father and 19 when she gave birth to Friedrich—came from a pastor’s family that was not only slightly lower on the social scale but also much more zealously evangelical in outlook, belonging to the neo-Pietist persuasion in contrast to the rational Lutheranism of the Nietzsches. Nietzsche’s father died when Nietzsche was almost five and his sister, Elisabeth (later to become Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche), was four, forcing the whole family, consisting of Nietzsche himself, his grandmother Erdmuthe, her two unmarried daughters, Auguste and Rosalie, Franziska, Elisabeth, and an elderly female maid, to decamp to Naumburg, Erdmuthe’s former home. Eventually, Franziska was able to have her own household in which the devotional atmosphere continued unabated.
