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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. Known as the "sage of Chelsea", his writings strongly influenced the intellectual and artistic culture of the Victorian era.
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science · Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881) · linguist · literary historian · historian · translator · mathematician · philosopher · essayist · writer · literary critic · novelist · also Thomas Carlyle, The Sage of Chelsea, Carlyle
Born 4 December 1795 · Died 5 February 1881 · Q151403
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2026· 8 entries
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“Thought is stronger than artillery-parks”
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“with very kind acceptance from people more distinguished than ever; yet still with a feeling that I was far from the right lecturing point yet.”
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“What is there to fear, indeed?”
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1991· 1 entry
“Ein Register ohne Buch hat mir manchmal genützt, ein Buch ohne Register nie". Zitiert nach Ludwig Reiners: Stilkunst. München 1991, S. 509. ISBN 3406349854”
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1955· 1 entry
“Thomas Carlyle citado em "Hout in alle tijden: Bossen, bomen en hout van thans; ontbossing en herbebossing; bomen en hout voor bijzondere doeleinden" - página 377, W. Boerhave Beekman - Æ.E. Kluwer, 1955”
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1945· 1 entry
Joseph Goebbels frequently sought consolation from Carlyle's History of Frederick the Great
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1936· 1 entry
Theodor Deimel argued that because of the "profound difference" between Carlyle's philosophical foundation of "a personally shaped religious idea" and the Völkisch foundation of National Socialism, the designation of Car
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1933· 1 entry
Who came to see Carlyle as den ersten englischen Nationalsozialisten (the first English National Socialist)
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1915· 1 entry
“Thomas Carlyle: how to know him - página 43, The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1915 - 267 páginas”
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1901· 1 entry
That Carlyle's Volkscharakter (Folk character) had preserved "the peculiarity of the Low German tribe", Egon Friedell, an anti-Nazi and Jewish Austrian, explained in 1935 that Carlyle's affinity with Germany stemmed from
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1897· 1 entry
“On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history ... - Página 139, Thomas Carlyle - Chapman & Hall, 1897 - 255 páginas”
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1895· 1 entry
“Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 561.”
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1881· 12 entries
Died 1881-02-05.
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Which sparked controversy due to Froude's failure to excise comments that might offend living persons, as was common practice at the time
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“Reminiscences (1881), referring to his father, James Carlyle.”
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“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”
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“A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.”
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“All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books.”
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“Wonder is the basis of worship.”
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“With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.”
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“History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”
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“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”
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“The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.”
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“Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!”
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1878· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1878).
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1876· 1 entry
“Public letter to George Howard, published in the Times and other newspapers, 28 November 1876 Shepherd, Richard Herne; Williamson, Charles Norris (1881). Memoirs of the life and writings of Thomas Carlyle. 2. pp. 307-311. OCLC 2762132.”
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1875· 2 entries
“A phrase which came into common use after a letter by Carlyle on the Balkan crisis of 1875-76:”
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Was presented with a commemorative medal crafted by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm and an address of admiration signed by 119 of the leading writers, scientists, and public figures of the day
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1870· 3 entries
“Letter to The Times on the Franco-Prussian War and Germany's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine (18 November 1870), p. 8”
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Was elected President of the London Library, and in November he wrote a letter to The Times in support of Germany in the Franco-Prussian War
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As "Lieutenant" to Carlyle's "General in Chief"
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1869· 2 entries
“Critical and miscellaneous essays, Volume 1 - página 3, Thomas Carlyle - Chapman and Hall, 1869”
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“Heroes and hero-worship - Página 190, Thomas Carlyle - Chapman and Hall, 1869”
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1868· 1 entry
Wrote reminiscences of John Wilson and William Hamilton, and his niece Mary Aitken Carlyle moved into 5 Cheyne Row, becoming his caretaker and assisting in the editing of Jane's letters
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1866· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1866).
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1865· 2 entries
And received the Pour le Mérite in 1874, amongst other honours
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Career landmark: Rector of the University of Edinburgh (1865–1868).
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1858· 2 entries
“Life of Fredrick the Great, Bk. IV, ch. 3 (1858–1865). Sometimes misreported as "Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains"; see Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 12.”
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To survey the topography of battlefields, which he documented in Journey to Germany, Autumn 1858, published posthumously
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1856· 1 entry
The first two volumes of History of Friedrich II
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1855· 2 entries
“Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 434, Thomas Carlyle, 1855”
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“(Original engl.: "... and Death, what mortals call Death, properly the beginning of Life." - Critical and miscellaneous essays. A new edition. Vol. 5. Boston 1855, S. 301 (aus "Characteristics", Edinburgh Review 1831))”
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1854· 1 entry
“Project of a National Exhibition of Scottish Portraits”
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1852· 1 entry
Carlyle began research on Frederick the Great, whom he had expressed interest in writing a biography of as early as 1830
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1851· 2 entries
“s unsatisfactory 1848 biography. In late September and early October, he made his second trip to Paris, where he met Adolphe Thiers and Prosper Mérimée; his account,”
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Carlyle wrote The Life of John Sterling as a corrective to Julius Hare's unsatisfactory 1848 biography
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1849· 1 entry
After his death; Duffy would publish his own memoir of their travels, Conversations with Carlyle
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1848· 1 entry
To support a Bill in Parliament to allow voting rights for Jews in the United Kingdom, asking Richard Monckton Milnes in a correspondence how a Jew could "try to be Senator, or even Citizen, of any Country, except his ow
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1846· 1 entry
With Charles Gavan Duffy as a companion and guide, and wrote a series of brief articles on the Irish question in 1848
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1845· 1 entry
“Introduction to Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (1845).”
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1844· 1 entry
“An Election to the Long Parliament”
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1843· 1 entry
“Glücklich, wer seinen Beruf erkannt hat. Er verlange nach keinem andern Glück!" - Past and Present, 1843, Book III, chapter XI: Labour”
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1841· 5 entries
“Thomas Carlyle, "On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History" (1841), pg. 64-67”
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“The Lecturing business went of [sic] with sufficient éclat; the Course was generally judged, and I rather join therein myself, to be the bad best I have yet given.”
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“Sometimes quoted as "Man was created to work, not to speculate, or feel, or dream; Every idle moment is treason". The second of those two clauses in fact comes from Thomas Arnold The Christian Life (1841), Lecture VI.”
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As On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History
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“On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History”
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1840· 2 entries
“[Heroes and Hero-Worship http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1091] (1840); The Hero as Man of Letters”
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And struggled to find what form it would take
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1838· 3 entries
“On History" in: "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished" - Volume II Página 247, de Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler - Publicado por James Munroe, 1838”
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"Sir Walter Scott", being a review of John Gibson Lockhart's biography, and "Varnhagen von Ense's Memoirs"
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As well as a collection of his earlier writings in the form of the Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, facilitated in Boston with the aid of Emerson
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1837· 2 entries
“Remarks to his wife after he had finished writing The French Revolution (12 January 1837), quoted in James Anthony Froude, Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834–1881, Vol. I (1884), p. 84”
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“The French Revolution: A History (1837)”
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1835· 1 entry
“Letter to His Wife (1835).”
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1834· 1 entry
Carlyle applied unsuccessfully for the astronomy professorship at the Edinburgh observatory
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1833· 1 entry
“(letter written in the summer of 1833), The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872. Volume 1 (3rd ed.). Boston: James R. Osgood & Company. 1883. pp. 3–4. (edited by Charles Eliot Norton)”
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1831· 4 entries
“Review of Historic Survey of German Poetry, interspersed with Various Translations by W. Taylor, in The Edinburgh Review Vol. LIII (1831), p. 178.”
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“Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in in three books: By Thomas Carlyle - Página 46, Livro I, cap. XI, Thomas Carlyle - Chapman and Hall, 1831 - 228 páginas”
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“Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in in three books: By Thomas Carlyle - Página 112, Livro II, cap. VII, Thomas Carlyle - Chapman and Hall, 1831 - 228 páginas”
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“Three little happinesses have befallen us ... Our third happiness was the arrival of a certain young unknown friend, named Emerson, from Boston, in the United States, who turned aside so far from his British, French, and Italian travels to see me here! He had an introduction from Mill, and a Frenchman (Baron d”
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1830· 1 entry
“Jean Paul Friedrich Richter Again”
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1827· 3 entries
To the celebration of his centennial as though he were a national hero in 1895, Carlyle had long enjoyed a high reputation in Germany
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“A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. ("Richter", 1827)”
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Carlyle attempted to land the Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews without success, despite support from an array of prominent intellectuals, including Goethe
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1825· 2 entries
“My Own Four Walls” (c. 1825) Froude, James Anthony (1882). Thomas Carlyle: A history of the first forty years of his life, 1795-1835. p. 189. OCLC 603024.”
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“The life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an examination of his works (1825).”
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1824· 2 entries
Meeting with prominent writers such as Thomas Campbell, Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and gaining friendships with Anna Montagu, Bryan Waller Proctor, and Henry Crabb Robinson
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“Letter to Thomas Murray (24 August 1824), quoted in Fred Kaplan, Thomas Carlyle: A Biography (1983), p. 100”
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1817· 1 entry
Which required her to be removed from her home and restrained
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1813· 2 entries
Completed his arts curriculum and enrolled in a theology course at Divinity Hall, Edinburgh, the following academic year
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Studied at University of Edinburgh (1809–1813).
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1809· 1 entry
Studied at Annan Academy (1806–1809).
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1805· 1 entry
Studied at Hoddom School, Academy Street, Ecclefechan (1805).
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1795· 1 entry
Born 1795-12-04.
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