The Resume

(December 4, 1795-February 5, 1881)
Wrote 'Life of Schiller (1825),' 'Sartor Resartus (1834),' 'The French Revolution (1837),' 'Chartism (1840),' 'On Heroes and Hero Worship (1841)' and 'Reminiscences (1881)'

Why he might be annoying:

He was crabby.
He hated humanity.
He was a racist who argued that slavery shouldn't have been abolished in Britain.
He and his wife disliked each other.
Alfred Lord Tennyson said it was good they had married each other, because it only made two people miserable instead of four.
Henry James called him 'an old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in its own grease.'
He was one of Joseph Goebbels' favorite authors.

Why he might not be annoying:

He grew up poor.
His writing style had lots of personality.
He wasn't afraid to piss off his stuffy Victorian readers.
His wife wrote nasty things about him in her diary, and he found it when she died.
He turned down a lordship from Benjamin Disraeli.
He created a satirical character named Diogenes Teufelsdroeckh, which means 'God-born devil-shit.'

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• College Drop Outs
• Eminent Victorians
• Historians
• I am an Agnostic
• I am Scottish
• I Attended University of Edinburgh
• I Got a Pet Cat or Twenty
• I Write Bildungsroman
• Lion Manes
• Mutton Chops
• Philosophers: 19th Century [1800-1900]
• Profiles 12501-12750 (Ranked: 12578)
• Short Fuses
• Sourpuss Faces
• Vehicle Names
• Wieland Kalligaro's Profiles [Series 4]

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 19 Votes: 84.21% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 22 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 31 Votes: 58.06% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 27 Votes: 51.85% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 24 Votes: 70.83% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 98 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 91 Votes: 67.03% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 256 Votes: 69.53% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 71 Votes: 77.46% Annoying