Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau

Life Facts:

He attended Harvard College in 1833, yet he rejected the ordinary career parts like law or medicine or the church

Thoreau's father was a pencil maker and his moth took in boarders

Spiritual Beliefs

Thoreau then struck up a remarkable friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson. Transcendentalism is a philosophy that emphasizes the importance of the spirtiual over the material when it comes to leading a fulfilling life. Emerson and his transcendtalism had a huge influence on Thoreau.

Influences

One of his essays became one of the most influential pieces of American political philosophy in history and influenced many. Example like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and the anti-natzi resistence

Year of Death: 1910

Year of Birth: 1817

Books he published

Thoreau has only written two books called "A Week On the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" and "Walden; or, Like in the Wood."