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Thomas Carlyle

1795 - 1881

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Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy. Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Carlyle attended the University of Edinburgh where he excelled in mathematics, inventing the Carlyle circle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Carlyle has received more than 2,664,829 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Thomas Carlyle is the 294th most popular philosopher (down from 243rd in 2019), the 492nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 407th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Philosopher.

Thomas Carlyle is most famous for his book "The French Revolution" which he wrote in 1837.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Thomas Carlyle ranks 294 out of 1,267. Before him are G. E. Moore, Francisco Suárez, Johann Reuchlin, Crates of Thebes, Roscellinus, and Alain Badiou. After him are Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Alexander of Aphrodisias, James Ussher, Otto Weininger, Franz Brentano, and Fukuzawa Yukichi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1795, Thomas Carlyle ranks 6. Before him are James K. Polk, Frederick William IV of Prussia, Leopold von Ranke, Anna Pavlovna of Russia, and John Keats. After him are Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Antonio José de Sucre, Ary Scheffer, Dred Scott, Alexander Griboyedov, and Ernst Heinrich Weber. Among people deceased in 1881, Thomas Carlyle ranks 11. Before him are Benjamin Disraeli, Billy the Kid, Lewis H. Morgan, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Jenny von Westphalen, and Louis Auguste Blanqui. After him are Auguste Mariette, Henri Vieuxtemps, Nikolay Pirogov, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Nikolai Rubinstein, and Empress Dowager Ci'an.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Carlyle ranks 492 out of 8,785. Before him are John Dowland (1563), John Cleese (1939), Martin Amis (1949), George Everest (1790), Ernest Thompson Seton (1860), and James Callaghan (1912). After him are J. Bruce Ismay (1862), Henry Hudson (1570), Trevor Howard (1913), James I of Scotland (1394), Richard Branson (1950), and James IV of Scotland (1473).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, Thomas Carlyle ranks 17. Before him are Joseph Priestley (1733), Duns Scotus (1265), John Wycliffe (1324), Pelagius (360), William Godwin (1756), and G. E. Moore (1873). After him are Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), A. S. Neill (1883), Francis Hutcheson (1694), John of Salisbury (1110), J. L. Austin (1911), and E. H. Carr (1892).

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