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Who influenced Ralph Waldo Emerson?

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

    German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)

    Influenced 78

    Influenced by 16

  • Plato

    Greek philosopher (c. 427 – 348 BC)

    Influenced 62

    Influenced by 7

  • Michel de Montaigne

    French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592)

    Influenced 9

    Influenced by 0

  • Emmanuel Swedenborg

    Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 0

  • Hafez

    Persian poet and mystic (1325–1390)

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 7

Who was influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson?

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    German philosopher (1844–1900)

    Influenced 71

    Influenced by 67

  • Henry David Thoreau

    American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

    Influenced 12

    Influenced by 8

  • Walt Whitman

    American poet, essayist and journalist

    Influenced 9

    Influenced by 8

  • William James

    American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist (1842–1910)

    Influenced 7

    Influenced by 2

  • Emily Dickinson

    American poet (1830-1886)

    Influenced 6

    Influenced by 1

  • Robert Frost

    American poet; 4x recipient of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

    Influenced 5

    Influenced by 8

  • Emma Goldman

    Russian anarchist

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 10

  • Margaret Fuller

    American writer and women's activist (1810–1850)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 1

  • Adelbert Jenkins

    American clinical psychologist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Charles Holden

    English architect (1875-1960)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 5

  • E. Armand

    French individualist anarchist (1872-1962)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Felix Adler

    German-American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer (1851-1933)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 12

  • Harold Bloom

    American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930-2019)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Henry Demarest Lloyd

    American journalist (1847-1903)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Ivan Cankar

    Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist (1876-1918)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Jones Very

    American poet and essayist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Robert Musil

    Austrian philosophical writer (1880–1942)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4