Henry David Thoreau

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abolitionist diarist essayist human naturalist philosopher poet transcendentalist writer

Henry David Thoreau was a 19th-century American transcendentalist writer, philosopher, and naturalist best known for his works "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience," which advocated simple living and principled resistance to unjust laws.

Aliases (2)

John Thoreau Jr. ×1
Thoreau ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	abolitionist → diarist → essayist → human → naturalist → philosopher → poet → transcendentalist → writer →
birthDate	1817-07-12 →
birthPlace	Concord, Massachusetts, United States →
causeOfDeath	tuberculosis →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
deathDate	1862-05-06 →
deathPlace	Concord, Massachusetts, United States →
educatedAt	Harvard College →
familyName	Thoreau →
fullName	Henry David Thoreau →
genre	essay → nature writing → nonfiction → philosophical literature →
givenName	Henry →
influenced	Leo Tolstoy → Mahatma Gandhi → Martin Luther King Jr. →
influencedBy	Ralph Waldo Emerson → Transcendentalist philosophy →
knownFor	advocacy of simple living → nature observation and journals → philosophy of civil disobedience →
language	English →
movement	Transcendentalism →
notableWork	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers → Cape Cod → Civil Disobedience → The Maine Woods → Walden; or, Life in the Woods →
occupation	philosopher → schoolteacher → surveyor → writer →
religion	Unitarian-influenced Christianity →
residedIn	Concord, Massachusetts →
wrote	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers → Cape Cod → Civil Disobedience → The Maine Woods → Walden; or, Life in the Woods →

Referenced by (33)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers → Civil Disobedience → The Allegash and East Branch → The Maine Woods → The Ponds → Walden; or, Life in the Woods → Where I Lived, and What I Lived For →	author
Letter from Birmingham Jail → Louisa May Alcott → Mahatma Gandhi → Martin Luther King Jr. →	influencedBy
Concord, Massachusetts → Hollis Hall → Holworthy Hall →	hasNotableResident
Alexander von Humboldt → Ralph Waldo Emerson → Ralph Waldo Emerson →	influenced
Elizabeth Peabody → Margaret Fuller →	associatedWith
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ("John Thoreau Jr.") → The Allegash and East Branch →	featuresCharacter
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, United States →	burialPlaceOf
Henry David Thoreau ("Thoreau") →	familyName
Henry David Thoreau →	fullName
Transcendentalism →	hasKeyFigure
Transcendental Club →	hasMember
American literature →	hasNotableAuthor
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers →	mainCharacter
American Romanticism →	notableAuthor
American Renaissance →	notableFigure
Edward Tyrrel Channing →	notableStudent
Ticknor and Fields →	publishedAuthor
The Dial →	publishedWorkBy