Ralph Waldo Emerson

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essayist human lecturer philosopher poet transcendentalist

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a 19th-century American essayist, lecturer, and central figure of the transcendentalist movement, renowned for works such as "Self-Reliance" and "Nature."

Aliases (3)

Emerson ×3
Waldo Emerson ×2
Ralph Waldo Emerson (implicitly honored) ×1

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	essayist → human → lecturer → philosopher → poet → transcendentalist →
causeOfDeath	pneumonia →
child	Edith Emerson → Edward Waldo Emerson → Ellen Tucker Emerson → Waldo Emerson →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1803-05-25 →
dateOfDeath	1882-04-27 →
educatedAt	Harvard College → Harvard Divinity School →
familyName	Emerson →
fieldOfWork	literature → philosophy → religion →
fullName	Ralph Waldo Emerson →
genre	essay → philosophical literature → poetry →
givenName	Ralph →
influenced	Friedrich Nietzsche → Henry David Thoreau → Walt Whitman → William James →
influencedBy	Immanuel Kant → Johann Wolfgang von Goethe → Samuel Taylor Coleridge → Thomas Carlyle →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movement	Transcendentalism →
notableWork	English Traits → Essays: First Series → Essays: Second Series → Nature → Representative Men → Self-Reliance → Society and Solitude → The American Scholar → The Conduct of Life →
occupation	essayist → lecturer → philosopher → poet →
placeOfBirth	Boston, Massachusetts, United States →
placeOfDeath	Concord, Massachusetts, United States →
positionHeld	Unitarian minister →
religion	Unitarianism →
residence	Concord, Massachusetts, United States →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Ellen Louisa Tucker → Lidian Jackson Emerson →

Referenced by (60)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
English Traits → Essays: First Series → Essays: Second Series → Nature (essay) → Representative Men → Self-Reliance → Society and Solitude → The American Scholar → The Conduct of Life → the Over-Soul →	author
Bronson Alcott → George Ripley → Harold Bloom → Henry David Thoreau → Leaves of Grass → Louisa May Alcott → Walt Whitman → Woman in the Nineteenth Century →	influencedBy
Michel de Montaigne → Plutarch → Samuel Taylor Coleridge → Thomas Carlyle →	influenced
Elizabeth Peabody → Margaret Fuller → Old Corner Bookstore →	associatedWith
Edward Waldo Emerson ("Emerson") → Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Emerson") → Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Emerson") →	familyName
Concord, Massachusetts → Hollis Hall → Holworthy Hall →	hasNotableResident
Ralph Waldo Emerson → Ralph Waldo Emerson →	fullName
Ticknor and Fields → Ticknor, Reed & Fields →	publishedAuthor
Edward Waldo Emerson → Edward Waldo Emerson ("Waldo Emerson") →	relative
I Sing the Body Electric →	associatedAuthor
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, United States →	burialPlaceOf
Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Waldo Emerson") →	child
Bronson Alcott →	closeFriend
the Over-Soul →	creator
Leaves of Grass ("Ralph Waldo Emerson (implicitly honored)") →	dedicatedTo
The Dial →	editor
Edward Waldo Emerson →	father
The Dial →	foundedBy
The Atlantic Monthly →	founder
John Howland →	hasDescendant
Transcendentalism →	hasKeyFigure
Transcendental Club →	hasMember
American literature →	hasNotableAuthor
Emerson Collective →	namedAfter
Boston Latin School →	notableAlumnus
American Romanticism →	notableAuthor
North American Review →	notableContributor
American Renaissance →	notableFigure
Edward Tyrrel Channing →	notableStudent
Jonathan Eastman Johnson →	portraitSubject
A Fable for Critics →	portrays
The Dial →	publishedWorkBy