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Also known as The Sage of Chelsea

Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)

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Thomas Carlyle was a person recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He is associated with the Commons category and gallery for his name, as well as a Creator page on that platform. His works have been referenced by 2,527 other encyclopedia articles.

He authored or is linked to 575 works listed in the Open Library, including *De los héroes, el culto de los héroes y lo heroico en la historia*, *Past and Present*, and *The French Revolution, Volume 2*. Other listed works include volumes of the *Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872*. Crossref lists 5 works, while Europeana Sparql lists 36.

Carlyle was born on 1795-12-04 or 1795-01-01 and died on 1881-02-05 or 1881-01-01. He has 38 listeners and a playcount of 253 on Last.fm. His writings include the statement that speech is human and silence is divine, and he noted that the public is an old woman. He also wrote, "So here hath been dawning Another blue Day."

Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Instance of
human
Given name
Thomas
Gender
male
Place of birth
Ecclefechan
Place of death
London
Occupation
teacher
Languages spoken
German
Field of work
history
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Commons category
Thomas Carlyle
date of birth
1795-01-01
date of death
1881-01-01
topic's main category
Category:Thomas Carlyle
Commons gallery
Thomas Carlyle
archives at
Smith College
Commons Creator page
Thomas Carlyle
name in native language
Thomas Carlyle
ethnic group
Scottish people
writing language
English language
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WikiProject Mathematics
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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Thomas Carlyle, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) 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.

Carlyle was born in Ecclefechan, a village in Dumfriesshire. He attended the University of Edinburgh, where he excelled in mathematics and invented the Carlyle circle. After finishing the arts course he prepared to become a minister in the Burgher Church while working as a schoolmaster. He quit these and several other endeavours before settling on literature, writing for the Edinburgh Encyclopædia and working as a translator. He initially gained prominence in English-language literary circles for his extensive writing on German Romantic literature and philosophy. These themes were explored in his first major work, a semi-autobiographical philosophical novel entitled Sartor Resartus (1833–34).

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