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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25 1803 – April 27 1882) was an American essayist lecturer and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

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birth date
1803-05-25
birth place
Boston, Massachusetts
death date
1882-04-27
death place
Concord Massachusetts
era
19th-century philosophy
influenced
Emma Goldman, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marcel Proust, Robert Musil, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William James, Émile Armand, Harold Bloom, Ivan Cankar
influenced by
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Plato, Michel de Montaigne, Emanuel Swedenborg
main interest
Individualism, Mysticism
notableIdea
Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul
philosophicalSchool
Transcendentalism

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