Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Marian Rejewski across 3 places, from 1905 to 1967.
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Marian Adam Rejewski (16 August 1905 – 13 February 1980) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in late 1932 reconstructed the sight-unseen German military Enigma cipher machine, aided by limited documents obtained by French military intelligence.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Marian Rejewski was documented, and when
16 August 1905exact date
Brombergattested“Marian Rejewski was born 16 August 1905 in Bromberg in the Prussian Province of Posen (now Bydgoszcz, Poland) to Józef and Matylda, née Thoms.”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
1944year
Bydgoszczattested“After the Germans suppressed the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, they sent Rejewski's wife and children west, along with other Warsaw survivors; the family eventually found refuge with her parents in Bydgoszcz.”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
1967 to 1969period
Warsawattested“He retired in 1967, and moved with his family back to Warsaw in 1969, to an apartment he had acquired 30 years earlier with financial help from his father-in-law.”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
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1930year
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańmentioned“He did not complete the statistics course, because while home for the summer of 1930, he accepted an offer, from Professor Krygowski, of a mathematics teaching assistantship at Poznań University.”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
1930year
Poznańmentioned“He did not complete the statistics course, because while home for the summer of 1930, he accepted an offer, from Professor Krygowski, of a mathematics teaching assistantship at Poznań University.”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
1930year
Poznamentioned“He did not complete the statistics course, because while home for the summer of 1930, he accepted an offer, from Professor Krygowski, of a mathematics teaching assistantship at Poznań University.”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
1 September 1932exact date
Warsawmentioned“In Warsaw, on 1 September 1932, Rejewski, Zygalski, and Różycki joined the Cipher Bureau as civilian employees working at the General Staff building (the Saxon Palace).”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
1937year
Pyry (neighborhood)mentioned“In 1937 Rejewski, along with the German section of the Cipher Bureau, transferred to a secret facility near Pyry in the Kabaty Woods south of Warsaw.”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
1937year
Kabaty Woodsmentioned“In 1937 Rejewski, along with the German section of the Cipher Bureau, transferred to a secret facility near Pyry in the Kabaty Woods south of Warsaw.”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
1939year
Francementioned“The course was conducted off-campus at a military facility and, as Rejewski would discover in France in 1939, "was entirely and literally based" on a 1925 book by French colonel , Cours de cryptographie (Cryptography Course).”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
25 July 1939exact date
Pyry (neighborhood)mentioned“The Polish methods were revealed to French and British intelligence representatives in a meeting at Pyry, south of Warsaw, on 25 July 1939.”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
5 September 1939exact date
Warsawmentioned“The availability of Ultra was due to the earlier Polish breaking of Enigma; Gordon Welchman, head of Bletchley Park's Hut 6 (which solved German Army and Air Force Enigma ciphers), writes: "Hut 6 Ultra would never have gotten off the gro…”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
20 October 1939exact date
Gretz-Armainvilliersmentioned“On 20 October 1939 the three Polish cryptologists resumed work on German ciphers at a joint French–Polish–(anti-fascist) Spanish radio-intelligence unit stationed at Gretz-Armainvilliers, forty kilometers northeast of Paris, and housed i…”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
December 1939month
Parismentioned“The British were able to manufacture at least two complete sets of perforated sheets—they sent one to PC Bruno, outside Paris, in mid-December 1939—and began reading Enigma within months of the outbreak of war.”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
1940year
Bletchley Parkmentioned“Rejewski had often wondered what use Alan Turing (who in early 1940 had visited the Polish cryptologists at PC Bruno outside Paris) and the British at Bletchley Park had ultimately made of the Polish discoveries and inventions.”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
1940year
Parismentioned“Rejewski had often wondered what use Alan Turing (who in early 1940 had visited the Polish cryptologists at PC Bruno outside Paris) and the British at Bletchley Park had ultimately made of the Polish discoveries and inventions.”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
17 January 1940exact date
Francementioned“On 17 January 1940 the Poles found the first Enigma key to be solved in France, one for 28 October 1939.”source: Wikipedia: Marian Rejewski
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