Ralph

Robert Waldo Emerson

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson was born

    On Election Day
  • Emerson went to Boston Latin School, Harvard College

  • Emerson was approbated to preach

  • Emerson became pastor of Boston's Second Church

  • Emerson married Ellen Louisa Tucker

  • Emerson's wife Ellen died of tuberculosis

  • Emerson resigned his post because of his questioning of Christian faith

  • In Paris at a botanical exhibition Emerson found a calling as a naturalist

  • Emerson took part in lecturing as a part of the lyceum movement

  • Emerson married Lydia Jackson

  • Emerson published Nature which speaks of nature as inspiration and source of humanity's fulfillment.

  • Emerson gave the "Divinity School Address"

    In this address renounces traditional Christianity with rhetorical blows
  • Emerson travelled Europe on a year-long lecture tour

  • Emerson died