George Gurdjieff
1866 to 1949
21 documented presences
15 places
Quo Fuit places 21 dated presences for George Gurdjieff across 15 places, from 1878 to 1950. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff ( – 29 October 1949) was a philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, composer, and movements teacher.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where George Gurdjieff was documented, and when
1878 to 1918period
Karsattested
“Gurdjieff spent his childhood in Kars, which, from 1878 to 1918, was the administrative capital of the Russian-ruled Transcaucasus province of Kars Oblast, a border region recently acquired following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1912year
Central Asiaattested
“In early adulthood, according to his own account, Gurdjieff's search for such knowledge led him to travel widely to Central Asia, Egypt, Iran, India, Tibet and other places before he returned to Russia for a few years in 1912.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1912year
Russiaattested
“In early adulthood, according to his own account, Gurdjieff's search for such knowledge led him to travel widely to Central Asia, Egypt, Iran, India, Tibet and other places before he returned to Russia for a few years in 1912.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1915year
Londonattested
“He met Gurdjieff in 1915 and spent the next five years studying with him, then formed his own independent groups in London in 1921.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1917year
Alexandropolattested
“During the revolutionary upheaval in Russia, Gurdjieff left Petrograd in 1917 to return to his family home in Alexandropol (present-day Gyumri in Armenia).”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1917year
Armeniaattested
“During the revolutionary upheaval in Russia, Gurdjieff left Petrograd in 1917 to return to his family home in Alexandropol (present-day Gyumri in Armenia).”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1917year
Petrogradattested
“During the revolutionary upheaval in Russia, Gurdjieff left Petrograd in 1917 to return to his family home in Alexandropol (present-day Gyumri in Armenia).”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1917year
Russiaattested
“During the revolutionary upheaval in Russia, Gurdjieff left Petrograd in 1917 to return to his family home in Alexandropol (present-day Gyumri in Armenia).”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1919year
Tbilisiattested
“In 1919, Gurdjieff and his closest pupils moved to Tbilisi, Georgia, where Gurdjieff's wife Julia Ostrowska, the Stjoernvals, the Hartmanns, and the de Salzmanns continued to assimilate his teaching.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
August 1923month
Istanbulattested
“Bennett met both Ouspensky and then Gurdjieff at Istanbul in 1920, spent August 1923 at Gurdjieff's Institute, became Ouspensky's pupil between 1922 and 1941 and, after learning that Gurdjieff was still alive, was one of Gurdjieff's freq…”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
August 1923month
Parisattested
“Bennett met both Ouspensky and then Gurdjieff at Istanbul in 1920, spent August 1923 at Gurdjieff's Institute, became Ouspensky's pupil between 1922 and 1941 and, after learning that Gurdjieff was still alive, was one of Gurdjieff's freq…”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1924year
North Americaattested
“Starting in 1924, Gurdjieff made visits to North America, where he eventually received the pupils taught previously by A.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1924year
New Yorkattested
“She met Gurdjieff during his 1924 visit to New York, and set up a Gurdjieff study group at her apartment in Greenwich Village.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1925 to 1935period
Parisattested
“In 1925, she moved to Paris to study at Gurdjieff's Institute, and re-established her group in Paris until 1935 when Gurdjieff sent her to London to lead the group that C.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1925 to 1935period
1932year
October 1947month
1949year
1949year
29 October 1949exact date
1950year
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Places George Gurdjieff is documented in
Paris4 presences · 1923 to 1949London2 presences · 1915 to 1925New York2 presences · 1924 to 1949Russia2 presences · 1912 to 1917Armenia1 presence · 1917Central Asia1 presence · 1912Istanbul1 presence · 1923Neuilly-sur-Seine1 presence · 1949North America1 presence · 1924Petrograd1 presence · 1917Tbilisi1 presence · 1919United States1 presence · 1950
Other places tied to George Gurdjieff in the record
In each of these, a source puts George Gurdjieff and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that George Gurdjieff 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.
1884year
Londonmentioned
“Maurice Nicoll (1884–1953) was a Harley Street psychiatrist and Carl Jung's delegate in London.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
March 1918month
Englandmentioned
“In March 1918, Ouspensky separated from Gurdjieff, settling in England and teaching the Fourth Way in his own right.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
May 1920month
Georgia (country)mentioned
“In late May 1920, when political and social conditions in Georgia deteriorated, his party travelled to Batumi on the Black Sea coast and then by ship to Constantinople (today Istanbul).”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
May 1920month
Batumimentioned
“In late May 1920, when political and social conditions in Georgia deteriorated, his party travelled to Batumi on the Black Sea coast and then by ship to Constantinople (today Istanbul).”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
May 1920month
Constantinoplementioned
“In late May 1920, when political and social conditions in Georgia deteriorated, his party travelled to Batumi on the Black Sea coast and then by ship to Constantinople (today Istanbul).”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1921year
Londonmentioned
“He began attending Ouspensky's London talks in 1921 and then met Gurdjieff when the latter first visited London early in 1922.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1924year
Fontainebleaumentioned
“In 1924, while driving alone from Paris to Fontainebleau, he had a near-fatal car crash.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1924year
Parismentioned
“In 1924, while driving alone from Paris to Fontainebleau, he had a near-fatal car crash.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
November 1925month
New Yorkmentioned
“According to the writer Fritz Peters, Gurdjieff was in New York from November 1925 to the spring of 1926, when he succeeded in raising over $100,000.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1931year
Englandmentioned
“In 1931, on Ouspensky's advice, he started his own Fourth Way groups in England.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1932year
Americamentioned
“Despite his fund-raising efforts in America, the Prieuré operation ran into debt and was shut down in 1932.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
1936year
Parismentioned
“(It was later published under the title Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'.) In 1936, he settled in a flat at 6, in Paris, where he was to stay for the rest of his life.”
source: Wikipedia: George Gurdjieff
Documented at the same place, the same year
Eduardo ChillidaFrance · 1949ArmanFrance · 1949Marc ChagallFrance · 1923Ivan BilibinParis · 1925Pyotr KrasnovFrance · 1923W. E. B. Du BoisNew York · 1949Noe ZhordaniaTbilisi · 1919Alphonse MuchaRussia · 1912Sergei YeseninRussia · 1912Patricia HighsmithNew York · 1924Joseph L. MankiewiczNew York · 1924James BaldwinNew York · 1924
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