Novelist Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Living place: Concord

Birthday: 12-7-1817

Global rank: #23802

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Who is Novelist Henry David Thoreau?
American naturalist, philosopher, and author best known for Walden, a literary classic that advocated an uncomplicated life in the natural environment. He was a key figure in the Transcendentalist movement and also a prominent abolitionist.
His famous political essay, Civil Disobedience, was published in 1849.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He took courses in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathematics, and science at Harvard University, but refused to pay the five-dollar fee for his diploma. He published his first essays in the early 1840s, at the urging of his friends and mentors, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Family life info

He and his two brothers grew up in Concord, Massachusetts as the children of pencil maker John Thoreau and his wife, Cynthia Dunbar. Henry David Thoreau then built a house in the woods and lived alone in a natural setting, an experiment that inspired his literary masterpiece, Walden.

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His work influenced the literary development of Leo Tolstoy.

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When was Novelist Henry David Thoreau born?
Henry David Thoreau was born in 12-7-1817, death year is , at the age of 207.
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Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts- United States. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Ox. Henry David Thoreau's global rank is 23802 and whose rank is 95 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1817 and 12-7

Birthday Henry David Thoreau (12-7) in history

  • Day 12-7 year 1543: King Henry VIII of England married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.
  • Day 12-7 year 1690: In the Battle of Boyne in Ireland, Protestant William of Orange defeated James II of Roman Catholicism.
  • Day 12-7 year 1862: Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.
  • Day 12-7 year 1960: The first Etch-A-Sketch went on sale.
  • Day 12-7 year 1979: Kiribati, formerly the Gilbert Islands, gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
  • Day 12-7 year 1984: Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale became the first major-party candidate to choose a woman as a running mate when he announced his choice of Geraldine Ferraro.
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