Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Benjamin Lee Whorf across 4 places, from 1897 to 1931.
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Benjamin Atwood Lee Whorf (April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer best known for proposing the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Benjamin Lee Whorf was documented, and when
24 April 1897exact date
Winthrop, Massachusettsattested“The son of Harry Church Whorf and Sarah Edna Lee Whorf, Benjamin Atwood Lee Whorf was born on April 24, 1897, in Winthrop, Massachusetts.”source: Wikipedia: Benjamin Lee Whorf
1930year
Mexico Cityattested“The SSRC awarded Whorf the grant and in 1930 he traveled to Mexico City, where Professor Robert H.”source: Wikipedia: Benjamin Lee Whorf
1931year
Yale Universityattested“Whorf had met Sapir, the leading US linguist of the day, at professional conferences, and in 1931 Sapir came to Yale from the University of Chicago to take a position as Professor of Anthropology.”source: Wikipedia: Benjamin Lee Whorf
1931year
University of Chicagoattested“Whorf had met Sapir, the leading US linguist of the day, at professional conferences, and in 1931 Sapir came to Yale from the University of Chicago to take a position as Professor of Anthropology.”source: Wikipedia: Benjamin Lee Whorf
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1928year
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnologymentioned“In 1928, he first presented a paper at the International Congress of Americanists in which he presented his translation of a Nahuatl document held at the Peabody Museum at Harvard.”source: Wikipedia: Benjamin Lee Whorf
1928year
Harvardmentioned“In 1928, he first presented a paper at the International Congress of Americanists in which he presented his translation of a Nahuatl document held at the Peabody Museum at Harvard.”source: Wikipedia: Benjamin Lee Whorf
1936year
Yale Universitymentioned“In 1936, Whorf was appointed honorary research fellow in anthropology at Yale, and he was invited by Franz Boas to serve on the committee of the Society of American Linguistics (later Linguistic Society of America).”source: Wikipedia: Benjamin Lee Whorf
1938year
Arizonamentioned“Whorf credited Naquayouma as the source of most of his information on the Hopi language, although in 1938 he took a short field trip to the village of Mishongnovi, on the Second Mesa of the Hopi Reservation in Arizona.”source: Wikipedia: Benjamin Lee Whorf
1938year
Yale Universitymentioned“In 1938 with Trager's assistance he elaborated a report on the progress of linguistic research at the department of anthropology at Yale.”source: Wikipedia: Benjamin Lee Whorf
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