Henry David Thoreau

Henry D. Thoreau

Sort Name: Thoreau, Henry David
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Date of birth: 1817-07-12
Place of birth: Concord

Date of death: 1862-05-06
Place of death: Concord

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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) 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" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument in favor of citizen disobedience against an unjust state.

Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and attention to practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.

Thoreau was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the fugitive slave law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of notable figures such as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Thoreau is sometimes referred to retrospectively as an anarchist, but may perhaps be more properly regarded as a proto-anarchist.

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American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.

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Editions

Name	Format	ISBN	Release Date
Walden; or, Life in the Woods	Hardcover	?	1854-08-09
Chesuncook	Hardcover	978-3-99027-260-2	2022-02-25
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience	eBook	?	1993-06-01
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)	eBook	?	2014-05-25
Essays (Henry David Thoreau)	eBook	?	2021-05-11
Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience	eBook	?	1995-01-01
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers	eBook	?	2020-04-20
Leben aus den Wurzeln (6. Auflage)	Paperback	978-3-451-07655-8	1986
Walden: Der Traum vom einfachen Leben	Paperback	978-3-15-020473-3	2017-05-12
Walden: Ein Leben mit der Natur	Paperback	978-3-423-12684-7	2007-03
Leben aus den Wurzeln (6. Auflage)	Paperback	978-3-451-07655-8	1986

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Henry David Thoreau wrote Chesuncook(german translation by Alexander Pechmann)
Henry David Thoreau wrote Autumnal Tints
Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden: Der Traum vom einfachen Leben(German translation by Fritz Güttinger)
Henry David Thoreau wrote Slavery in Massachusetts
Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden: Ein Leben mit der Natur(Erika Ziha translation, revised by Sophie Zeitz)
Henry David Thoreau is the subject of Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions
Henry David Thoreau wrote Homer; Ossian; Chaucer
Henry David Thoreau wrote Herald of Freedom
Henry David Thoreau wrote Sir Walter Raleigh
Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden
Henry David Thoreau wrote The Landlord
Henry David Thoreau wrote Dark Ages
Henry David Thoreau wrote Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum
Henry David Thoreau wrote Die Ameisenschlacht
Henry David Thoreau is the subject of The Senses of Walden
Henry David Thoreau wrote After the Death of John Brown
Henry David Thoreau wrote Walking
Henry David Thoreau wrote The Wellfleet Oysterman
Henry David Thoreau wrote The Service
Henry David Thoreau is the subject of Alexander von Humboldt und die Erfindung der Natur
Henry David Thoreau wrote Unabhängigkeit
Henry David Thoreau wrote A Yankee in Canada
Henry David Thoreau wrote Thomas Carlyle and His Works
Henry David Thoreau is the subject of Die Sinne von Walden(first published 2014)
Henry David Thoreau wrote The Succession of Forest Trees
Henry David Thoreau wrote Paradise (To Be) Regained
Henry David Thoreau wrote Life Without Principle
Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern(Emmerich / Fischer translation)
Henry David Thoreau wrote On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau is the subject of Angelic Troublemakers: Religion and Anarchism in America
Henry David Thoreau is the subject of Henry D. Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau wrote Natural History of Massachusetts
Henry David Thoreau wrote A Walk to Wachusett
Henry David Thoreau wrote Aulus Persius Flaccus
Henry David Thoreau wrote The Highland Light
Henry David Thoreau wrote The Last Days of John Brown
Henry David Thoreau wrote Wild Apples
Henry David Thoreau wrote Chesuncook
Henry David Thoreau wrote Night and Moonlight
Henry David Thoreau wrote A Plea for Captain John Brown
Henry David Thoreau wrote A Winter Walk
Henry David Thoreau wrote A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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10264

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