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.

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Henry D. Thoreau	1
John Thoreau Jr.	1
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birthDate	1817-07-12 ⓘ
birthPlace	Concord, Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: Concord, Massachusetts, United States
causeOfDeath	tuberculosis ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
deathDate	1862-05-06 ⓘ
deathPlace	Concord, Massachusetts ⓘ surface form: Concord, Massachusetts, United States
educatedAt	Harvard University ⓘ surface form: Harvard College
familyName	Henry David Thoreau self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Thoreau
fullName	Henry David Thoreau self-link ⓘ
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 ⓘ

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