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Elias Canetti

1905 to 1994 5 documented presences 4 places

Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Elias Canetti across 4 places, from 1905 to 1934. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Elias Canetti (25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994;) was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Elias Canetti was documented, and when

1905year
Ruse, Bulgariaattested “He was born in 1905 to businessman Jacques Canetti and Mathilde ( Arditti) in Ruse, a city on the Danube in Bulgaria.” source: Wikipedia: Elias Canetti
1905year
Principality of Bulgariaattested “He was born in 1905 to businessman Jacques Canetti and Mathilde ( Arditti) in Ruse, a city on the Danube in Bulgaria.” source: Wikipedia: Elias Canetti
1905 to 1911period
Manchesterattested “Canetti spent his childhood years, from 1905 to 1911, in Ruse until the family moved to Manchester, England, where Canetti's father joined a business established by his wife's brothers.” source: Wikipedia: Elias Canetti
1924year
Viennaattested “Canetti went back to Vienna in 1924 in order to study chemistry.” source: Wikipedia: Elias Canetti
1934 to 1935period
Viennaattested “In Vienna, he published two works, Komödie der Eitelkeit 1934 (The Comedy of Vanity) and Die Blendung 1935 (Auto-da-Fé, 1935), before escaping to Great Britain.” source: Wikipedia: Elias Canetti

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Places Elias Canetti is documented in

Vienna2 presences · 1924 to 1934Manchester1 presence · 1905
Principality of Bulgaria1 presence · 1905
Ruse, Bulgaria1 presence · 1905

Other places tied to Elias Canetti in the record

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1916 to 1953period
Viennamentioned “He also had a close relationship with writer Frieda Benedikt (1916–1953; pseudonym Anna Sebastian), whom Canetti had already met in Vienna in 1936.” source: Wikipedia: Elias Canetti
1929year
University of Viennamentioned “He received a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Vienna in 1929 but never worked as a chemist.” source: Wikipedia: Elias Canetti
1938year
Londonmentioned “In 1938, after the Anschluss with Germany, the Canettis moved to London.” source: Wikipedia: Elias Canetti

Documented at the same place, the same year

Stefan ZweigAustria · 1934Ludwig von MisesAustria · 1934Samuel BarberAustria · 1934Hans AspergerAustria · 1934Hayim Nahman BialikAustria · 1934Franz KafkaVienna · 1924Theodor W. AdornoVienna · 1924Wilhelm ReichVienna · 1924Karl KautskyVienna · 1924Rudolf CarnapVienna · 1924Paul FeyerabendVienna · 1924Angela HitlerVienna · 1924

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Sources

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