Question
This Sturm und Drang aficionado translated Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and wrote a Life of Friedrich Schiller. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this historian and essayist whose manuscript for a history on the French Revolution was destroyed by a careless housemaid.
ANSWER: Thomas Carlyle
[10m] Carlyle outlined his belief in this theory of history in his On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History. This theory is often contrasted with “history from below” or historical materialism.
ANSWER: great man theory
[10e] One of Carlyle’s examples of heroes in history is this English statesman who advocated for the execution of Charles I and served as Lord Protector of England after commanding the New Model Army.
ANSWER: Oliver Cromwell
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