Henry david thoreau nationality
Henry david thoreau education
Henry david thoreau childhood!
The American writer, thinker, and naturalist Henry D. Thoreau was born to John and Cynthia (Dunbar) Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts, on 12 July 1817.
In 1828, after a few years in Concord’s grammar school, Thoreau began attending the Concord Academy, and from 1833 to 1837 he attended Harvard College.
After graduating from Harvard Thoreau secured a teaching position at the Concord Center School (public), but he resigned after just two weeks because he refused to use corporal punishment on his charges.
From 1838 until 1841 he and his older brother John, Jr., taught a private school in Concord, and in 1839 the two brothers went on a two week boating excursion that Thoreau later memorialized in his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, published in 1849.
In 1840 Thoreau published poems and essays in the transcendentalist periodical, The Dial, and from 1841 to 1843 he lived with the famous author and lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emerson’
