Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Adelbert von Chamisso across 5 places, from 1810 to 1821.
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Adelbert von Chamisso (30 January 1781 – 21 August 1838) was a German poet, writer and botanist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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1810year
Berlinattested“Homeless and without a profession, disillusioned and despondent, Chamisso lived in Berlin until 1810, when through the services of an old friend of the family he was offered a professorship at the lycée at Napoléonville in the Vendée.”source: Wikipedia: Adelbert von Chamisso
1810year
Napoléonvilleattested“Homeless and without a profession, disillusioned and despondent, Chamisso lived in Berlin until 1810, when through the services of an old friend of the family he was offered a professorship at the lycée at Napoléonville in the Vendée.”source: Wikipedia: Adelbert von Chamisso
1810year
Vendéeattested“Homeless and without a profession, disillusioned and despondent, Chamisso lived in Berlin until 1810, when through the services of an old friend of the family he was offered a professorship at the lycée at Napoléonville in the Vendée.”source: Wikipedia: Adelbert von Chamisso
1810year
Napolattested“Homeless and without a profession, disillusioned and despondent, Chamisso lived in Berlin until 1810, when through the services of an old friend of the family he was offered a professorship at the lycée at Napoléonville in the Vendée.”source: Wikipedia: Adelbert von Chamisso
1821year
Kotzebueattested“Also, his Bemerkungen und Ansichten, published in an incomplete form in Kotzebue's Entdeckungsreise (Weimar, 1821) and more completely in Chamisso's Collected Works (1836), and the botanical work, Übersicht der nutzbarsten und schädlichs…”source: Wikipedia: Adelbert von Chamisso
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1790year
Berlinmentioned“In 1790, the French Revolution drove his parents out of France with their seven children, and they went successively to Liège, the Hague, Würzburg, and Bayreuth, and possibly Hamburg, before settling in Berlin.”source: Wikipedia: Adelbert von Chamisso
1790year
Liègementioned“In 1790, the French Revolution drove his parents out of France with their seven children, and they went successively to Liège, the Hague, Würzburg, and Bayreuth, and possibly Hamburg, before settling in Berlin.”source: Wikipedia: Adelbert von Chamisso
1800 to 1837period
Berlinmentioned“On his return in 1818 he was made custodian of the botanical gardens in Berlin, and was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in 1819 he married his friend Hitzig's foster daughter Antonie Piaste (1800–1837).”source: Wikipedia: Adelbert von Chamisso
1801 to 1805period
Hamelinmentioned“Chamisso had become a lieutenant in 1801, and in 1805 he accompanied his regiment to Hamelin, where he shared in the humiliation of the town's capitulation the next year.”source: Wikipedia: Adelbert von Chamisso
1807year
Berlinmentioned“Placed on parole, he went to France, but both his parents were dead; returning to Berlin in the autumn of 1807, he obtained his release from the Prussian service early the following year.”source: Wikipedia: Adelbert von Chamisso
1807year
Francementioned“Placed on parole, he went to France, but both his parents were dead; returning to Berlin in the autumn of 1807, he obtained his release from the Prussian service early the following year.”source: Wikipedia: Adelbert von Chamisso
1812year
Berlinmentioned“In 1812 he returned to Berlin, where he continued his scientific studies.”source: Wikipedia: Adelbert von Chamisso
January 1818month
Cape of Good Hopementioned“He collected at the Cape of Good Hope in January 1818 in the company of Krebs, Mund and Maire.”source: Wikipedia: Adelbert von Chamisso
1821year
Pacific Oceanmentioned“His diary of the expedition (Tagebuch, 1821) is a fascinating account of the expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea.”source: Wikipedia: Adelbert von Chamisso
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