Thomas Carlyle (December 4th 1795 - February 5th 1881) is a writer, satirist and British Historien , of which work have a very strong influence during the time victorienne.

Originating in a family strictly calvinist, Carlyle is intended for a life of priest. It is at the time of its years to the Université of Edinburgh that it loses the faith; although it preserves some throughout its life the values which his/her parents inculcated to him. This synthesis of a religious temperament and a lost Christian faith contributes to return the work of Carlyle - as to France that of Renan - interesting to the eyes of many its contemporaries who at the time are with the catches with scientific and political changes threatening the established social order.

Correspondence

• Correspondence: Goethe, Carlyle (edition of Charles Eliot Norton; translation of Georges Khnopff). - Paris: Editions of the Pike perch, 2005. - 183 p., 22 cm. - ISBN 2-914958-22-6. Caution: it is about the correspondence with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)… The text of a correspondence from June 24th, 1824 to May 6th " includes; 1832" and some appendices.