Thos Carlyle, or better known as Thomas Carlyle. 1795 - 1881. Scottish essayist and historian. Taught mathematics, Annan (1814); schoolmaster at Kirkcaldy (1816). Met Coleridge, Hazlitt, and other literary men in London (1824); Wrote articles for Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopaedia; translated Legendre's Geometry and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister; wrote Life of Schiller (1825). married (1826) Jane Baillie Welsh; settled in Edinburgh; wrote essays for Edinburgh Review; formed friendship with Jeffrey. Moved to Craigenputtock (1828); wrote the autobiographical Sartor Resartus (pub. in Fraser's Magazine, 1833 - 34), a speculative discussion of creeds and systems of philosophy under guise of a philosophy of clothes; settled in London (1834). His French Revolution (1837), published despite burning of manuscript for most of first volume by John Stuart Mill's servant, established his reputation as one of foremost men of letters; published Chartism (1840), On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841), Past and Present (1843), Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850); in Oliver Cromwell (1845) revolutionized contemporary estimate of Cromwell; biographized his friend John Sterling (1851); devoted himself (1851 - 65) to his History of Fredrick The Great; installed as rector of Edinburgh U. (1866), publishing address as On the Choice of Books (1866). Self-styled prophet, one of great sages of era.