Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau bio

Birth Name: Henry David Thoreau

Occupation: Novelist

Place Of Birth: Concord

Date Of Birth: July 12, 1817

Date Of Death: May 6, 1862

Cause Of Death: N/A

Ethnicity: White

Nationality: American


Henry David Thoreau was born on the 12th of July, 1817. He was famous for being a Novelist. American naturalist, philosopher, and author who is best known for Walden, a literary classic that advocates an uncomplicated life in natural surroundings. He was a key figure in the Transcendentalist movement and was also a prominent abolitionist.

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord. He took courses in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathematics, and science at Harvard University, but refused to pay the five dollar fee for his diploma. He published his first essays in the early 1840s, at the urging of his friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson . His famous political essay, Civil Disobedience, was published in 1849.

Henry David Thoreau was a Cancer and was born in the G.I. Generation.


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Childhood

Henry David Thoreau was born in 1810s.

Henry David Thoreau is part of G.I. Generation also known as The Greatest Generation. This generation experienced much of their youth during the Great Depression and rapid technological innovation such as the radio and the telephone. The initials "G.I." is military terminology referring to "Government Issue" or "General Issue".

Education

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Family

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Personal Life

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Henry David Thoreau was born in the Year of the Ox.

Fast Facts

REAL NAME: Henry David Thoreau
NICKNAME: Henry
RELIGION: Unknown
AGE GENERATION: G.I. Generation
BIRTH SIGN: Cancer
BIRTH DAY: Saturday
DEATH DAY: Tuesday

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Horoscope

Zodiac Sign: Henry David Thoreau was a Cancer. People of this zodiac sign like home-based hobbies, relaxing near or in water, helping loved ones, and dislike strangers, revealing of personal life. The strengths of this sign are being loyal, emotional, sympathetic, tenacious, persuasive, while weaknesses can be moody, pessimistic, suspicious, manipulative and insecure. The greatest overall compatibility with Cancer is Capricorn and Taurus.

Chinese Zodiac: Henry David Thoreau was born in the Year of the Dragon. People born under this sign are persistent and straightforward. They have a strong faith and can be seen as stubborn in their old ways.

Ruling Planet: Henry David Thoreau had a ruling planet of Moon and has a ruling planet of Moon and by astrological associations Sunday is ruled by moon. The Moon represents one's nurturing and emotional instinct. People who are born with Moon as the ruling planet are sensitive, nurturing, and usually have fluctuating moods.

Henry David Thoreau’s birth sign is Cancer and he had a ruling planet of Moon.


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