Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish historian and essayist, the son of a stonemason. He abandoned his plans to become a Calvinist minister in favour of an intellectual life of writing and translating. His major work The French Revolution (1837) had to be rewritten after the manuscript was accidentally burned. Carlyle’s other works include Sartor Resartus (1833) and a six-volume history of Frederick the Great.
