Thomas Carlyle

  The most respected Scotish Essayst, critic and Historian Thomas Carlyle was born in the small village of Ecclefeehon, Dam-frieshire. His primary education began me local grammar schoel and his higher education ended at the University of Edinburgh, where he enrolled at the age of fourteen in 1809.

 After receiving his degree from the University he became extremely interested in German Literature hi did his utmost to popularize German Literature in England with a translation of a work of Goethe in 1824. Carlyle’s first important work was Sartor Resortus which
had been a spiritual autobiography This was published in Fraser’s Magazine in 1833 and I1834. this became a success. However, his best-known book is the French Revolution, a three-volume work which was published in 1837.

 Thomas Carlyle’s other important contributions to literature included a monumental six-volume history of the German Emperor Frederick the Great. This great man of literature contributed a large number of other works to world literature and his demise took place in 1881 when he was 86