Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Georg Henrik von Wright across 4 places, from 1916 to 2003.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Georg Henrik von Wright (14 June 1916 – 16 June 2003) was a Finnish philosopher.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Georg Henrik von Wright was documented, and when
14 June 1916exact date
Helsinkiattested“Georg Henrik von Wright was born in Helsinki, Finland on 14 June 1916 to Tor von Wright, a managing director, and his wife Ragni Elisabeth Alfthan.”source: Wikipedia: Georg Henrik von Wright
1947 to 1951period
Helsinkiattested“He returned to Cambridge again in 1947 and became a close student of Wittgenstein's, who Wittgenstein reportedly said was "the only one of his students who he had not spoiled with his education, the only one who did not attempt to imitat…”source: Wikipedia: Georg Henrik von Wright
1947 to 1951period
Cambridgeattested“He returned to Cambridge again in 1947 and became a close student of Wittgenstein's, who Wittgenstein reportedly said was "the only one of his students who he had not spoiled with his education, the only one who did not attempt to imitat…”source: Wikipedia: Georg Henrik von Wright
1954 to 1964period
Helsinkiattested“Traveling from Helsinki, he was a visiting professor at Cornell University in 1954 and a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles 1964 and then a repeated visitor (the Andrew D.”source: Wikipedia: Georg Henrik von Wright
1954 to 1964period
University of California, Los Angelesattested“Traveling from Helsinki, he was a visiting professor at Cornell University in 1954 and a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles 1964 and then a repeated visitor (the Andrew D.”source: Wikipedia: Georg Henrik von Wright
1994 to 1995period
Leipzig Universityattested“He was the first Leibniz visiting professor to Leipzig University, for the academic year 1994–1995.”source: Wikipedia: Georg Henrik von Wright
University of California, Los Angeles1 presence · 1954
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1937 to 1938period
Viennamentioned“As von Wright recounts, he visited Vienna in 1937 and met with Gödel and Viktor Kraft, but the Vienna Circle was already 'rapidly dispersing' by then and the Anschluss of 1938 put an end to his 'dreams' of studying there.”source: Wikipedia: Georg Henrik von Wright
1939year
Trinity College, Cambridgementioned“Instead, it being customary for a Finnish postgraduate to spend some time at a foreign university, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to work on his PhD thesis in March of 1939.”source: Wikipedia: Georg Henrik von Wright
1939year
Helsinkimentioned“He returned to Helsinki in the summer of 1939 and began working as a propagandist for Finland's World War II home front and then a military ballistics scientist.”source: Wikipedia: Georg Henrik von Wright
1973year
Yugoslaviamentioned“In 1973, interested in developing a Marxist humanism, he attended the Praxis School-organised Korčula Summer School in Yugoslavia.”source: Wikipedia: Georg Henrik von Wright
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