Who is Fredrich Wilhelm Nietzsche from Beyond Good and Evil and what is their importance?

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 in Rocken, Germany. He studied classical philology at the Universities of Bonn and Leipzig. In 1869 Nietzsche was appointed to the position of Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Declining health led Nietzsche to resign his post a decade later.