Arthur Schopenhauer was born in Danzig in 1788 where his family, of
Dutch origin, owned a respected trading house. Arthur was expected
to inherit the business, but hated the work and in 1807, after his
father's suicide and the sale of the business, he enrolled in the
grammar school at Gotha. In 1811 he moved to Berlin to write his
doctoral thesis, and began to write The World as Will and Idea, a
complete exploration of his philosophy, which was finished in 1818.
His belief in his own views sustained him through twenty-five years
of frustrated desire for fame. In 1844 brought out a much expanded
edition of his book, which after his death became one of the most
widely read of all philosophical works. His fame was established in
1851 with the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena, a collection
of dialogues, essays and aphorisms. He died in 1860.
R.J. Hollingdale has translated works by, among others,
Schopenhauer, Goethe, T.A. Hoffmann, Lichtenburg and Theodor
Fontane, as well as eleven of Nietzsche's books, many for the
Penguin Classics. He has published two books on Nietzsche and was
Honorary President of the British Nietzsche Society until his death
in 2003.
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