Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for Ernst Mayr across 8 places, from 1923 to 2005.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Ernst Walter Mayr (5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Ernst Mayr was documented, and when
1923year
University of Greifswaldattested“Mayr wrote about this event, "It was as if someone had given me the key to heaven." He entered the University of Greifswald in 1923 and, according to Mayr himself, "took the medical curriculum (to satisfy a family tradition) but after on…”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
1930year
New Guineaattested“* Mayr's forest rail (Rallicula mayri) (Hartert, 1930) - a species of bird found in New Guinea.”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
1931year
American Museum of Natural Historyattested“Mayr moved to the United States in 1931 to take up a curatorial position at the American Museum of Natural History, where he produced numerous publications on bird taxonomy, naming 26 new species and 445 new subspecies of birds.”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
1931year
United Statesattested“Mayr moved to the United States in 1931 to take up a curatorial position at the American Museum of Natural History, where he produced numerous publications on bird taxonomy, naming 26 new species and 445 new subspecies of birds.”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
1935year
New Ireland (island)attested“* Mayr's swiftlet (Aerodramus orientalis) (Mayr, 1935) - a species of bird found in New Ireland and Guadalcanal.”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
May 1935month
Manhattanattested“He had married fellow German Margarete "Gretel" Simon in May 1935 (they had met at a party in Manhattan in 1932), and she assisted Mayr in some of his work.”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
3 February 2005exact date
Bedford, Massachusettsattested“Mayr died on 3 February 2005 in his retirement home in Bedford, Massachusetts, after a short illness.”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
3 February 2005exact date
Bedfordattested“Mayr died on 3 February 2005 in his retirement home in Bedford, Massachusetts, after a short illness.”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
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American Museum of Natural History1 presence · 1931
Bedford1 presence · 2005
Bedford, Massachusetts1 presence · 2005
New Guinea1 presence · 1930
New Ireland (island)1 presence · 1935
Other places tied to Ernst Mayr in the record
In each of these, a source puts Ernst Mayr and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Ernst Mayr was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
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1927year
New Guineamentioned“At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Muse…”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
1927year
Budapestmentioned“At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Muse…”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
1927year
New Yorkmentioned“At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Muse…”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
Foja Mountainsmentioned“* Ernst Mayr's water rat (Leptomys ernstmayri) Rümmler, 1932 - a species of rodent, of the family Muridae, from the Foja Mountains of Papua Province, Indonesia, and Central Cordillera, Adelbert Range, and Huon Peninsula of Papua New Guinea.”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
1967year
United States National Academy of Sciencesmentioned“For his work, Animal Species and Evolution, he was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1967.”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
2004year
Corsicamentioned“* a roundworm - Poikilolaimus ernstmayri Sudhaus & Koch, 2004 - a new species of nematode, family Rhabditidae, associated with termites of the genus Reticulitermes, in Corsica.”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
2006 to 2015period
Bismarck Archipelagomentioned“* New Ireland rail (Gallirallus ernstmayri) † (Kirchman & Steadman, 2006) - a relatively large, probably flightless, extinct rail, family Rallidae, known from subfossil remains found on prehistoric archeological sites, in caves on New Ir…”source: Wikipedia: Ernst Mayr
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