Thomas Carlyle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Thomas Carlyle

Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

Date of Birth: 04-Dec-1795

Place of Birth: Ecclefechan, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 05-Feb-1881

Profession: writer, teacher, mathematician, historian, translator, literary critic, philosopher, novelist, essayist, literary historian, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish historian, satirical writer, essayist, translator, philosopher, mathematician, and teacher.
His work included On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History, where he argued that the actions of the "Great Man" play a key role in history, claiming that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men".
His major works include The French Revolution, 3 vol.
(1837), On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841), and The History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, 6 vol.
(1858–65)A respected historian, his 1837 book The French Revolution: A History was the inspiration for Charles Dickens' 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities, and remains popular today.
Carlyle's 1836 Sartor Resartus is a notable philosophical novel. A great polemicist, Carlyle coined the term "the dismal science" for economics, in his essay "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question," which remains controversial.
He also wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia.
Once a Christian, Carlyle lost his faith while attending the University of Edinburgh, later adopting a form of deism.In mathematics, he is known for the Carlyle circle, a method used in quadratic equations and for developing ruler-and-compass constructions of regular polygons.