The German rhetorical stylist, philosopher of ethics and essayist who is famous for his development of the notion of ubermensch, or UberMensch, a person who sets his/her own moral standards and is not dependent on the approval or approbation of his social group. Despite his remarkable misanthropy and misogyny, Nietzsche never directed his bile against any single ethnic grouping in fact, it was a distaste for racism in general that caused him to end his friendship with the German composer Richard Wagner. Nonetheless, his moral standpoint was open to misinterpretation, and his philosophies on the superman mentality were later adopted and perverted by the the Nazi Party.