Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Isaiah Berlin across 3 places, from 1909 to 1997.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Sir Isaiah Berlin (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Isaiah Berlin was documented, and when
6 June 1909exact date
Rigaattested“Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga (present-day Latvia) on 6 June 1909 into a wealthy Jewish family, the only son of Mendel Berlin, a timber trader (and a direct descendant of Shneur Zalman, founder of Chabad Hasidism), and his wife Marie ().”source: Wikipedia: Isaiah Berlin
5 October 1920exact date
Petrogradattested“One particular childhood memory of the February Revolution marked his lifelong opposition to violence, with Berlin saying: Feeling increasingly oppressed by life under Bolshevik rule, which identified the family as bourgeoisie, the famil…”source: Wikipedia: Isaiah Berlin
1958year
Oxfordattested“Berlin is known for his inaugural lecture, "Two Concepts of Liberty", delivered in 1958 as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford.”source: Wikipedia: Isaiah Berlin
5 November 1997exact date
Oxfordattested“Berlin died in Oxford on 5 November 1997, aged 88.”source: Wikipedia: Isaiah Berlin
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1940 to 1946period
Oxfordmentioned“Berlin was to remain at Oxford for the rest of his life, apart from a period working for British Information Services (BIS) in New York City from 1940 to 1942 and for the British embassies in Washington, D.C., and Moscow from then until…”source: Wikipedia: Isaiah Berlin
1940 to 1946period
New York Citymentioned“Berlin was to remain at Oxford for the rest of his life, apart from a period working for British Information Services (BIS) in New York City from 1940 to 1942 and for the British embassies in Washington, D.C., and Moscow from then until…”source: Wikipedia: Isaiah Berlin
1940 to 1946period
Washington, D.C.mentioned“Berlin was to remain at Oxford for the rest of his life, apart from a period working for British Information Services (BIS) in New York City from 1940 to 1942 and for the British embassies in Washington, D.C., and Moscow from then until…”source: Wikipedia: Isaiah Berlin
1940year
Portugalmentioned“Before crossing the Atlantic in 1940, Berlin took rest in Portugal for a few days.”source: Wikipedia: Isaiah Berlin
24 October 1940exact date
Estorilmentioned“He stayed in Estoril, at the Hotel Palácio, between 19 and 24 October 1940.”source: Wikipedia: Isaiah Berlin
April 1943month
Kansasmentioned“In April 1943 he wrote a confidential analysis of members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the Foreign Office; he described Senator Arthur Capper from Kansas as "a solid, stolid, 78-year-old reactionary from the corn belt, w…”source: Wikipedia: Isaiah Berlin
November 1945month
Leningradmentioned“Meetings with Anna Akhmatova in Leningrad in November 1945 and January 1946 had a powerful effect on both of them, and serious repercussions for Akhmatova (who immortalised the meetings in her poetry).”source: Wikipedia: Isaiah Berlin
1966year
Oxfordmentioned“He was instrumental in the founding, in 1966, of a new graduate college at Oxford University: Wolfson College.”source: Wikipedia: Isaiah Berlin
1966year
Oxford Universitymentioned“He was instrumental in the founding, in 1966, of a new graduate college at Oxford University: Wolfson College.”source: Wikipedia: Isaiah Berlin
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