Carlyle, Thomas
Carlyle, Thomas ( 1795 – 1881 ),born at Ecclefechan, in Dumfriesshire, the son of a stonemason; his parents were serious, industrious, and devout, and belonged to a Dissenting branch of the Presbyterian Church. Carlyle , intended by them and by himself for the ministry, was educated at Annan Academy and at the University of Edinburgh, where, affected by the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment , he abandoned this resolve; he taught for a while at Annan and Kirkcaldy and then took to literary work, tutoring and reviewing. He studied German literature; his life of Schiller appeared in the London Magazine in 1823 – 4 and was separately published in 1825 ; his translations of Goethe 's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Wilhelm Meister's Travels appeared in 1824 and 1827 respectively, the latter being included in his anthology of selections from German authors, German...
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