Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, born October 15, 1844, died August 25, 1900 was a 19th-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He is well known for his critical texts on religion and morality, and also wrote extensively on contemporary culture, philosophy and science.

His works include:
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
The Birth of Tragedy
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
Untimely Meditations
Hymnus an das Leben
Human, All Too Human
The Dawn
The Gay Science
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
On the Genealogy of Morality
The Case of Wagner
Twilight of the Idols
The Antichrist
Ecce Homo
Nietzsche contra Wagner
The Will to Power (Published posthumously)