Thomas Carlyle

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biographer essayist historian human philosopher satirist social critic translator

Thomas Carlyle was a 19th-century Scottish historian, essayist, and social critic known for his influential works on heroism, history, and the moral crises of industrial society.

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	biographer → essayist → historian → human → philosopher → satirist → social critic → translator →
citizenship	United Kingdom →
countryOfBirth	Scotland →
countryOfDeath	United Kingdom →
dateOfBirth	1795-12-04 →
dateOfDeath	1881-02-05 →
educatedAt	University of Edinburgh →
familyName	Carlyle →
genre	biography → essay → history → social criticism →
givenName	Thomas →
influenced	Charles Dickens → Friedrich Nietzsche → George Eliot → John Ruskin → Ralph Waldo Emerson →
influencedBy	German Idealism → Johann Wolfgang von Goethe → Scottish Presbyterianism →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movement	Romanticism → Scottish Enlightenment (late influence) → Victorian literature →
nativeLanguage	English →
notableWork	History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great → Latter-Day Pamphlets → Life of Friedrich Schiller → On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History → Past and Present → Sartor Resartus → The French Revolution: A History →
occupation	essayist → historian → lecturer → teacher → translator →
placeOfBirth	Ecclefechan →
placeOfDeath	London →
primaryTopicOf	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle →
religion	Presbyterianism (background) →
residence	Chelsea, London →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Jane Welsh Carlyle →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Charles Eliot Norton → Henry James Sr. → John Ruskin → Ralph Waldo Emerson → Ralph Waldo Emerson →	influencedBy
National Portrait Gallery →	foundedBy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge →	influenced
Eyre controversy in Britain →	involvesPerson
The Westminster Review →	notableContributor
Edward John Eyre →	supportedBy