Carlyle, Thomas

Carlyle, Thomas
► (1795-1881) Ensayista e historiador escocés. Su obra capital es Los héroes y su culto (1841), en que expone su teoría sobre el dominio del hombre en la historia.

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(4 dic. 1795, Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Escocia–5 feb. 1881, Londres, Inglaterra).

Historiador y ensayista escocés. Hijo de un albañil, Carlyle fue criado en un hogar estrictamente calvinista y se educó en la Universidad de Edimburgo. Se trasladó a Londres en 1834. Era un idealista incansable, irritable y porfiadamente independiente, lo que le confirió el estatus de líder moral en el ámbito de la literatura victoriana. Su ensayo humorístico Sartor Resartus (1836) es una mescolanza fantástica de autobiografía y filosofía alemana. The French Revolution [La Revolución francesa], 3 vol. (1837), tal vez su logro más significativo, contiene pasajes de un brillante estilo historiográfico y notables estudios del carácter de varias figuras históricas. En Los héroes y el culto de los héroes (1841) expresó su admiración por la fuerza, particularmente cuando va unida a la convicción de tener una misión divina. Publicó más tarde un estudio sobre Oliver Cromwell (1845) y una extensa biografía de Federico II, 6 vol. (1858–65).

Thomas Carlyle, detalle de una pintura al óleo de G.F. Watts, 1877; National Portrait ...
By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London

Enciclopedia Universal. 2012.

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