Theodore Parker was an American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. Wikipedia
Born: August 24, 1810, Lexington, MA
Died: May 10, 1860 (age 49 years), Florence, Italy
Influenced by: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Carlyle, and more
Parents: John Parker
Education: Harvard University, Harvard Divinity School, and Harvard College