Henry David Thoreau
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 162 years ago |
Date of birth | July 12,1817 |
Zodiac sign | Cancer |
Born | Concord |
Massachusetts | |
United States | |
Date of died | May 6,1862 |
Died | Concord |
Massachusetts | |
United States | |
Essays | Walden |
Life Without Principle | |
Slavery in Massachusetts | |
The Service | |
Influenced by | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
Height | 170 (cm) |
Movies/Shows | The Light at Walden |
Parents | Cynthia Dunbar |
John Thoreau | |
Siblings | Sophia Thoreau |
John Thoreau Jr. | |
Helen Thoreau | |
Books | Walking |
Walden Pond | |
Walden | |
Civil Disobedience/On the Duty of Civil Disobedience | |
School | Transcendentalism |
Alma mater | Harvard College |
Influences | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
Great grandparent | Elisha Jones |
Mary Dunbar | |
Samuel Dunbar | |
Mary Allen | |
Place of burial | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, United States |
Nationality | American |
French | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 412641 |
Henry David Thoreau Life story
Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.