"Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a British historian, satirical writer, essayist, translator, philosopher, mathematician, and teacher. In his book On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History (1841), he argued that the actions of the "Great Man" play a key role in history, claiming that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men". Other major works include The French Revolution: A History, 3 vols (1837) and The History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, 6 vols (1858–65).
A respected historian, his 1837 The French Revolution was the inspiration for Charles Dickens´ 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities, and remains popular today. Carlyle´s 1836 Sartor Resartus is a notable philosophical novel." - (en.wikipedia.org 09.03.2020)