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Ferdinand de Saussure

1857 to 1913 4 documented presences 4 places

Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Ferdinand de Saussure across 4 places, from 1857 to 1913. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure (26 November 1857 to 22 February 1913) was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Ferdinand de Saussure was documented, and when

1857year
Genevaattested “Saussure was born in Geneva in 1857.” source: Wikipedia: Ferdinand de Saussure
October 1876month
University of Leipzigattested “He began graduate work at the University of Leipzig and arrived at the university in October 1876.” source: Wikipedia: Ferdinand de Saussure
August 1880month
Lithuaniaattested “Thus, for example, his publication on Lithuanian phonetics is mostly taken from studies by the Lithuanian researcher Friedrich Kurschat, with whom Saussure traveled through Lithuania in August 1880 for two weeks and whose (German) books…” source: Wikipedia: Ferdinand de Saussure
1913year
Vufflens-le-Châteauattested “He died in 1913 in Vufflens-le-Château, Vaud, Switzerland.” source: Wikipedia: Ferdinand de Saussure

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Places Ferdinand de Saussure is documented in

Geneva1 presence · 1857Lithuania1 presence · 1880University of Leipzig1 presence · 1876
Vufflens-le-Château1 presence · 1913

Other places tied to Ferdinand de Saussure in the record

In each of these, a source puts Ferdinand de Saussure and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Ferdinand de Saussure 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.

1870year
Genevamentioned “In the autumn of 1870, he began attending the private school called the Institution Martine (previously the Institution Lecoultre until 1969) in Geneva.” source: Wikipedia: Ferdinand de Saussure
February 1880month
Leipzigmentioned “He returned to Leipzig to defend his doctoral dissertation De l'emploi du génitif absolu en Sanscrit, and was awarded his doctorate in February 1880.” source: Wikipedia: Ferdinand de Saussure
1892year
Genevamentioned “When offered a professorship in Geneva in 1892, he returned to Switzerland.” source: Wikipedia: Ferdinand de Saussure
1907 to 1916period
Genevamentioned “His lectures about important principles of language description in Geneva between 1907 and 1911 were collected and published by his pupils posthumously in the famous Cours de linguistique générale (Course in General Linguistics) in 1916.” source: Wikipedia: Ferdinand de Saussure

Documented at the same place, the same year

Edmund HusserlUniversity of Leipzig · 1876Isaac AlbénizUniversity of Leipzig · 1876

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