# Sartor Resartus — Character guide

> Key figures in Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle.

- [Diogenes Teufelsdröckh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/teufelsdrokh.md): An orphaned German professor of "Things in General" whose wild, courteous genius turns the philosophy of clothes into a mirror for the soul.
- [The Editor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/editor.md): A cautious English compiler who stitches Teufelsdröckh's chaotic German papers into order while quietly fearing where such innovations might lead.
- [Herr Hofrath Heuschrecke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/heuschrecke.md): Teufelsdröckh's loyal Hofrath and correspondent, whose offer of documents sets the whole editorial enterprise crystallising into being.
- [Andreas Futteral](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/andreas_futteral.md): The humble rural guardian who found an infant in his orchard and raised him into a philosopher, never guessing what name the child would make.
- [Gretchen Futteral](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/gretchen_futteral.md): The kind, pious woman who nursed a mysterious foundling into whiteness and manhood, and first told him the story of his unknown father.
- [Gneschen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/young_gneschen.md): Teufelsdröckh's childhood nickname, used for his early years.
- [Old Lieschen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/lieschen.md): Teufelsdröckh's bed-maker and stove-lighter in his youth.
- [Herr Towgood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/towgood.md): Teufelsdröckh's easygoing English friend from university days, a foil of cheerful worldliness against the Professor's metaphysical storms.
- [Blumine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/blumine.md): Blumine belongs to the bright, polished world of polite society that Teufelsdröckh, awkward and inward, can only approach from outside. She draws him toward tenderness and hope, yet the very refinement that enchants him 
- [Frau Gräfinn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/frau_graefinn.md): A countess who hosts Teufelsdröckh in society.
- [George Fox](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/george_fox.md): Founder of the Quakers, referenced as a spiritual exemplar.
- [Goethe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/goethe.md): German poet and philosopher, a major intellectual influence on Teufelsdröckh.
- [Napoleon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/napoleon.md): French emperor, used as a symbol of world-historical force.
- [Luther](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/luther.md): Protestant reformer, cited as a model of spiritual struggle.
- [Lord Byron](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/byron.md): Romantic poet, referenced as a figure of passionate genius.
- [Jesus of Nazareth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/jesus_of_nazareth.md): Central figure of Christianity, invoked in religious discussions.
- [Sir Walter Raleigh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sartor_resartus_se/characters/sir_walter_raleigh.md): Elizabethan explorer and writer, cited as a historical example.

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