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Carl Ludwig

1816 to 1895 6 documented presences 6 places

Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Carl Ludwig across 6 places, from 1839 to 1895. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (29 December 1816 – 23 April 1895) was a German physician and physiologist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Carl Ludwig was documented, and when

1839year
Witzenhausenattested “Ludwig was born at Witzenhausen, near Kassel, and studied medicine at Erlangen and Marburg, taking his doctor's degree at Marburg in 1839.” source: Wikipedia: Carl Ludwig
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Kasselattested “Ludwig was born at Witzenhausen, near Kassel, and studied medicine at Erlangen and Marburg, taking his doctor's degree at Marburg in 1839.” source: Wikipedia: Carl Ludwig
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University of Erlangenattested “Ludwig was born at Witzenhausen, near Kassel, and studied medicine at Erlangen and Marburg, taking his doctor's degree at Marburg in 1839.” source: Wikipedia: Carl Ludwig
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University of Marburgattested “Ludwig was born at Witzenhausen, near Kassel, and studied medicine at Erlangen and Marburg, taking his doctor's degree at Marburg in 1839.” source: Wikipedia: Carl Ludwig
1847year
Berlinattested “With his friends Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, and Emil du Bois-Reymond, whom he met for the first time in Berlin in 1847, he rejected the assumption that the phenomena of living animals depend on spec…” source: Wikipedia: Carl Ludwig
23 April 1895exact date
Leipzigattested “In 1865 Ludwig was appointed to the newly created chair of physiology at Leipzig, and continued there until his death on 23 April 1895.” source: Wikipedia: Carl Ludwig

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Places Carl Ludwig is documented in

Berlin1 presence · 1847Kassel1 presence · 1839Leipzig1 presence · 1895University of Marburg1 presence · 1839
University of Erlangen1 presence · 1839
Witzenhausen1 presence · 1839

Other places tied to Carl Ludwig in the record

In each of these, a source puts Carl Ludwig and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Carl Ludwig was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.

1849year
University of Zurichmentioned “In 1849 he was chosen professor of anatomy and physiology at Zurich, and 6 years afterwards he went to Vienna as professor in the Josephinum school for military surgeons.” source: Wikipedia: Carl Ludwig
1849year
University of Viennamentioned “In 1849 he was chosen professor of anatomy and physiology at Zurich, and 6 years afterwards he went to Vienna as professor in the Josephinum school for military surgeons.” source: Wikipedia: Carl Ludwig

Documented at the same place, the same year

Bernhard RiemannUniversity of Berlin · 1847Edward FranklandUniversity of Berlin · 1847

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