Friedrich Nietzsche: The history of his medical fill - The 100th anniversary of the philosopher's death

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most famous patients in the psychiatric hospital jena. Between 1889 and 1890, Otto Binswanger und T heodor Ziehen treated the progressive paralysis of Friedrich Nietzsche whos e 100th anniversary of death is on 25th August 2000. After Nietzsche's deat h, an animated discussion about his disease a rose. Many objected against t he syphilitic diagnosis of the disease. Nietzsche's medical fill became a p opular object of science, although it ended as a very odd story.