Alexander Tille

{{Short description|German philosopher (1866–1912)}}{{Infobox person

| name = Alexander Tille

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1866|04|30}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1912|12|16|1866|04|30}}

| death_place = Saarbrücken, Germany

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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.{{Cite web |title=The University of Glasgow Story - Alexander Tille |url=https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH24441&type=P |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220903011859/https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH24441&type=P |archive-date=2022-09-03 |access-date=2022-09-03 |website=University of Glasgow}} Tille strongly supported eugenics and Social Darwinism.{{cite journal |last=Manz |first=Stefan |year=2007 |title=Translating Nietzsche, Mediating Literature: Alexander Tille and the Limits of Anglo-German Intercultural Transfer |journal=Neophilologus |volume=91 |pages=117–134 |doi=10.1007/s11061-006-9008-x|s2cid=54607231 |url=https://publications.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/38481/1/Tille-Neophilologus.pdf }} 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|date=November 2023}}