Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Karl August Wittfogel across 6 places, from 1896 to 1939.
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Karl August Wittfogel (6 September 1896 – 25 May 1988) was a German-American historian, sinologist, and playwright.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Karl August Wittfogel was documented, and when
6 September 1896exact date
Woltersdorf, Lower Saxonyattested“Karl August Wittfogel was born 6 September 1896 at Woltersdorf, in Lüchow, Province of Hanover, to a Lutheran schoolteacher.”source: Wikipedia: Karl August Wittfogel
6 September 1896exact date
Lüchowattested“Karl August Wittfogel was born 6 September 1896 at Woltersdorf, in Lüchow, Province of Hanover, to a Lutheran schoolteacher.”source: Wikipedia: Karl August Wittfogel
1919year
Leipzig Universityattested“He studied philosophy, history, sociology, geography at Leipzig University and also in Munich, Berlin and Rostock and in 1919 again in Berlin.”source: Wikipedia: Karl August Wittfogel
1919year
Munichattested“He studied philosophy, history, sociology, geography at Leipzig University and also in Munich, Berlin and Rostock and in 1919 again in Berlin.”source: Wikipedia: Karl August Wittfogel
1919year
Berlinattested“He studied philosophy, history, sociology, geography at Leipzig University and also in Munich, Berlin and Rostock and in 1919 again in Berlin.”source: Wikipedia: Karl August Wittfogel
1939 to 1966period
Columbia Universityattested“Wittfogel held academic positions at Columbia University from 1939 and was professor for Chinese history at the University of Washington from 1947 to 1966.”source: Wikipedia: Karl August Wittfogel
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Goethe University Frankfurtmentioned“from the Frankfurter Universität in 1928, where his supervisors were Wilhelm Gerloff, Richard Wilhelm and Franz Oppenheimer.”source: Wikipedia: Karl August Wittfogel
1928year
Moscowmentioned“With the earlier Dada and Proletkult debates, the Mehring-, documentary- and proletarian-literature feud, from 1928 on became part of the long and bitter debate on literary modernism and communism, which culminated in the 1930s onslaught…”source: Wikipedia: Karl August Wittfogel
1931year
Leningradmentioned“At a Leningrad conference in 1931, all those ideas of an "asiatic" "mode of production" were shot down and buried by the Stalinist majority.”source: Wikipedia: Karl August Wittfogel
1933year
Switzerlandmentioned“When Hitler came to power in 1933, Wittfogel tried to escape to Switzerland, but was arrested and interned in prisons and concentration camps.”source: Wikipedia: Karl August Wittfogel
1949year
Chinamentioned“In his 1949 revisionist history of the Liao dynasty (916–1125) he coined the term "conquest dynasty" referring to a Chinese dynasty established by non-Han ethnicities in China proper.”source: Wikipedia: Karl August Wittfogel
1959 to 1960period
Chinamentioned“*Food and Society in China and India, New York, 1959 *Peking's "Independence (1959) *The Marxist View of Russian Society and Revolution, 1960 *Viewer's Guide to From Marx to Mao, University of Washington (1960) *The Legend of Maoism, 1960?”source: Wikipedia: Karl August Wittfogel
1967 to 1970period
U.S.S.Rmentioned“(1967) *Results and Problems of the Study of Oriental Despotism 1969 *Agriculture: a Key to the Understanding of Chinese Society, Past and Present, Australian National University Press, 1970 *Communist and Non-Communist Agrarian Systems,…”source: Wikipedia: Karl August Wittfogel
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