Alexander Tille

Alexander Tille
Born(1866-04-30)April 30, 1866
DiedDecember 16, 1912(1912-12-16) (aged 46)
Saarbrücken, Germany

Alexander Tille (April 30, 1866 in Lauenstein – December 16, 1912 in Saarbrücken) was a German philosopher. He published the first English translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra in 1896.[1] Tille strongly supported eugenics and Social Darwinism.[2] He claimed Christian ethics, democracy, equality, humanism and socialism were only the delusions held by the weak. Tille felt slums were good, since they could help purge society of the "unfit". He also thought disabled and mentally ill people should be left to starve, with food only given to the "fit".[citation needed]

  1. ^ "The University of Glasgow Story - Alexander Tille". University of Glasgow. Archived from the original on 2022-09-03. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
  2. ^ Manz, Stefan (2007). "Translating Nietzsche, Mediating Literature: Alexander Tille and the Limits of Anglo-German Intercultural Transfer" (PDF). Neophilologus. 91: 117–134. doi:10.1007/s11061-006-9008-x. S2CID 54607231.