Friedrich Nietzsche, the philosopher thought to have died of syphilis caught from prostitutes, was in fact the victim of a posthumous smear campaign by anti-Nazis, according to new research. A study ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Friedrich Nietzsche, the philosopher thought to have died of syphilis caught from prostitutes, was in fact the victim of a posthumous ...

And the deeper I got into the story the more I realised that there was really nothing known about Nietzsche's syphilis, there's a lot of controversy about it and a lot of confusion in the literature ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. History is written mostly by the victors. Sometimes it is also written by the losers, as a form of revenge. And sometimes, what passes ...

“In the yere of Chryst 1493 or there aboute this most foule and most grievous disease beganne to sprede amonge the people,” a German scholar named Ulrich von Hutten wrote soon after the first known ...