![]() ![]() A Concord variant is THUR-eau, like the English word "thorough." In appearance he was homely, with a nose that he called "my most prominent feature". He had two older siblings, Helen and John Jr, and a younger sister Sophia.īronson Alcott notes in his Journal that Thoreau pronounced his family name THOR-eau, stress on the first syllable, not the last, a common error today. He didn't change his name to "Henry David" until he had graduated from Harvard, although he never petitioned the government to do so officially. He was named after a recently deceased paternal Uncle, David Thoreau. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.ĭavid Henry Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, to John and Cynthia Thoreau. He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817- born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is famous for Civil Disobedience, on resistance to civil government and among 22 other books that Thoreau published. ![]()
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