Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on 12 July 1817 and died in the same town on 6 May 1862, of tuberculosis. Baptized David Henry, he began using the reversed order of his name after graduating. He studied at Harvard (1837), taught for a time, and worked with his father in pencil-making and as a surveyor while writing. He was a close friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who supported him and in whose Concord circle he was formed. His Journal, kept for decades, is an essential part of his work. ...