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Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on 25 May, 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American philosopher (1803–1882). Discover Ralph Waldo Emerson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 25 May 1803
Birthday 25 May
Birthplace Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of death 27 April, 1882
Died Place Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1803

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity.

Friedrich Nietzsche thought he was "the most gifted of the Americans,” and Walt Whitman called him his "master.”

Emerson was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, on May 25, 1803, to Ruth Haskins and the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister.

He was named after his mother's brother Ralph and his father's great-grandmother Rebecca Waldo.

Ralph Waldo was the second of five sons who survived into adulthood; the others were William, Edward, Robert Bulkeley, and Charles.

Three other children—Phoebe, John Clarke, and Mary Caroline—died in childhood.

Emerson was of English ancestry, and his family had been in New England since the early colonial period, with Emerson being a seventh-generation descendant of Mayflower voyagers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley through their daughter Hope.

1811

Emerson's father died from stomach cancer on May 12, 1811, less than two weeks before Emerson's eighth birthday.

Emerson was raised by his mother, with the help of the other women in the family; his aunt Mary Moody Emerson in particular had a profound effect on him.

1812

Emerson's formal schooling began at the Boston Latin School in 1812, when he was nine.

1817

In October 1817, at age 14, Emerson went to Harvard College and was appointed freshman messenger for the president, requiring Emerson to fetch delinquent students and send messages to faculty.

Midway through his junior year, Emerson began keeping a list of books he had read and started a journal in a series of notebooks that would be called "Wide World".

He took outside jobs to cover his school expenses, including as a waiter for the Junior Commons and as an occasional teacher working with his uncle Samuel and aunt Sarah Ripley in Waltham, Massachusetts.

By his senior year, Emerson decided to go by his middle name, Waldo.

1820

In the early 1820s, Emerson was a teacher at the School for Young Ladies (which was run by his brother William).

He next spent two years living in a cabin in the Canterbury section of Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he wrote and studied nature.

In his honor, this area is now called Schoolmaster Hill in Boston's Franklin Park.

1821

Emerson served as Class Poet; as was custom, he presented an original poem on Harvard's Class Day, a month before his official graduation on August 29, 1821, when he was 18.

He did not stand out as a student and graduated in the exact middle of his class of 59 people.

1826

In 1826, faced with poor health, Emerson went to seek a warmer climate.

He first went to Charleston, South Carolina, but found the weather was still too cold.

He then went farther south to St. Augustine, Florida, where he took long walks on the beach and began writing poetry.

While in St. Augustine he made the acquaintance of Prince Achille Murat, the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Murat was two years his senior; they became good friends and enjoyed each other's company.

The two engaged in enlightening discussions of religion, society, philosophy, and government.

Emerson considered Murat an important figure in his intellectual education.

1830

Together with "Nature", these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period.

Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world.

Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic: "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul."

Emerson is one of several figures who "took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world."

He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him.

"In all my lectures", he wrote, "I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man."

Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow Transcendentalist.

1836

Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature".

1837

Following this work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence."

Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print.

1841

His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), represent the core of his thinking.

They include the well-known essays "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet", and "Experience."

1863

She lived with the family off and on and maintained a constant correspondence with Emerson until her death in 1863.