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Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 12 July 1817
- Died
- 6 May 1862
- Place of birth
- Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse, Concord
- Place of death
- Concord
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Thoreau
- Father
- John Thoreau
- Mother
- Cynthia Dunbar
- Movement
- Western philosophy
- Genre
- transcendentalism
- Field of work
- writing, ethics, political philosophy, social philosophy, philosophy of religion, naturalism, history
- Occupation
- poet, philosopher, essayist, autobiographer, diarist, translator, writer, abolitionist, naturalist, ecologist, environmentalist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Native language
- English
- Religion
- Unitarianism
- archives at
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- birth name
- David Henry Thoreau
- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Library of the World's Best Literature, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The American Cyclopædia, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921, The Encyclopedia Americana, The New Student's Reference Work, New International Encyclopedia
- educated at
- Harvard College, Harvard University
- facial hair
- chin curtain
- has works in the collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum
- influenced by
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Quakers, Cynicism, Aristotle, Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus, Cato the Elder, Bhagavad Gita, Charles Darwin, Thomas Carlyle, Alexander von Humboldt
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- lifestyle
- vegetarianism
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- tuberculosis
- name in native language
- Henry David Thoreau
- notable work
- Walden, Civil Disobedience
- place of burial
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
- time period
- 19th-century philosophy
- topic's main category
- Category:Henry David Thoreau
- writing language
- English
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