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1803 – 1882Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)Died 27 April 1882, aged 78Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century. His essays on self-reliance and individualism shaped American literary and philosophical thought. He died at his home in Concord, Massachusetts.