# Alexander Tille

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**Alexander Tille** (April 30, 1866 in [Lauenstein](/source/Lauenstein_(Altenberg)) – December 16, 1912 in [Saarbrücken](/source/Saarbr%C3%BCcken)) was a German philosopher. He published the first English translation of Friedrich Nietzsche's *[Also sprach Zarathustra](/source/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra)* in 1896.[1] Tille strongly supported [eugenics](/source/Eugenics) and [Social Darwinism](/source/Social_Darwinism).[2] He claimed [Christian ethics](/source/Christian_ethics), [democracy](/source/Democracy), [equality](/source/Social_equality), [humanism](/source/Humanism) and [socialism](/source/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]

## References

1. ["The University of Glasgow Story - Alexander Tille"](https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH24441&type=P). *University of Glasgow*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20220903011859/https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH24441&type=P) 2022-09-03 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2022-09-03.

1. Manz, Stefan (2007). ["Translating Nietzsche, Mediating Literature: Alexander Tille and the Limits of Anglo-German Intercultural Transfer"](https://publications.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/38481/1/Tille-Neophilologus.pdf). *Neophilologus*. **91**: 117–134. [doi:10.1007/s11061-006-9008-x](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9008-x). [S2CID 54607231](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:54607231)

## Bibliography

- [Fritz Hellwig](/source/Fritz_Hellwig): "Alexander Tille." In: Peter Neumann (ed.): *Saarländische Lebensbilder*. Vol. 4. (1989), ISBN 3-925036-20-2.
- "Darwinismus und Zeitgeit." *Zeitschrift für Religions-und Geistesgeschichte* 14 (1962):143-80. cited by *The descent of Darwin: the popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914*, Alfred Kelly, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press 1981, ISBN 0-807-81460-1, p. 107.

## Further reading

- Schungel, Wilfried (1980). *Alexander Tille (1866-1912): Leben und Ideen eines Sozialdarwinisten*. Matthiesen. ISBN 9783786840404.

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