The Nietzsche-Haus is a house in Sils-Maria, Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

, where the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...

 lived during the summers of 1881 and 1883 to 1888.

Location

The house is located on a small hill in the village of Sils-Maria in the Engadin

Engadin

The Engadin or Engadine is a long valley in the Swiss Alps located in the canton of Graubünden in southeast Switzerland. It follows the route of the Inn River from its headwaters at Maloja Pass running northeast until the Inn flows into Austria one hundred kilometers downstream...

 region of Switzerland.

Library

The Nietzsche-Haus possesses a library open to researchers that contains one of the world's largest multi-language collections of books on Nietzsche. The library also contains three collections of books that were donated to the library: Oscar Levy

Oscar Levy

Oscar Levy was a German-Jewish physician and writer, now known as a scholar of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose works he first saw translated systematically into English. His was a paradoxical life, of self-exile and exile, and of writing on and against Judaism. He was influenced by the racialist...

's collection (Nietzsche first translator in English); Hans Erich Lampl's collection (a Nietzsche scholar) and Albi Rosenthal's collection (an antiquarian bookseller).

See also

• Nietzsche-Haus, Naumburg
  Nietzsche-Haus, Naumburg
  The Nietzsche-Haus in Naumburg, Germany, is a building dedicated to the life and work of the German philosopher Friedrich NietzscheIn the summer of 1858 Nietzsche's mother, Franziska Nietzsche, moved with her two children, Elisabeth and Friedrich, to 18 Weingarten in Naumberg, the site of the...