Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for Michel Serres across 8 places, from 1930 to 2011.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Michel Serres (1 September 1930 – 1 June 2019) was a French philosopher, and historian of science.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Michel Serres was documented, and when
1 September 1930exact date
Agenattested“Michel Serres was born on September 1, 1930, in Agen (France).”source: Wikipedia: Michel Serres
1969year
Parisattested“In 1969, he was appointed professor of History of Science at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.”source: Wikipedia: Michel Serres
1969year
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Universityattested“In 1969, he was appointed professor of History of Science at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.”source: Wikipedia: Michel Serres
1984year
Stanford Universityattested“He also taught in the United States, first at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, at the invitation of René Girard, then followed him to Stanford University, where he was appointed professor in 1984 and taught for nearly 30 years.”source: Wikipedia: Michel Serres
1984year
Johns Hopkins Universityattested“He also taught in the United States, first at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, at the invitation of René Girard, then followed him to Stanford University, where he was appointed professor in 1984 and taught for nearly 30 years.”source: Wikipedia: Michel Serres
1984year
United Statesattested“He also taught in the United States, first at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, at the invitation of René Girard, then followed him to Stanford University, where he was appointed professor in 1984 and taught for nearly 30 years.”source: Wikipedia: Michel Serres
1984year
Baltimoreattested“He also taught in the United States, first at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, at the invitation of René Girard, then followed him to Stanford University, where he was appointed professor in 1984 and taught for nearly 30 years.”source: Wikipedia: Michel Serres
1 March 2011exact date
French Academyattested“On March 1, 2011, in a solemn session at the French Academy on the theme “The New Challenges of Education,” Michel Serres delivered the speech “Petite Poucette,” referring to a generation that he explains is experiencing profound mutatio…”source: Wikipedia: Michel Serres
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Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University1 presence · 1969
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1947year
Bordeauxmentioned“In 1947, Michel Serres obtained both the scientific baccalauréat and the literary baccalauréat at the Lycée Montaigne in Bordeaux.”source: Wikipedia: Michel Serres
1949year
Francementioned“In 1949, he entered France's naval academy, the École Navale, in 1949.”source: Wikipedia: Michel Serres
1968 to 1969period
Parismentioned“At the invitation of Michel Foucault, Michel Serres was appointed to Paris-VIII University, where he briefly took part in the “Vincennes experiment” in 1968–1969.”source: Wikipedia: Michel Serres
1972 to 2013period
Académie Françaisementioned“There truly exists an objective transcendental.” As early as 1972, Michel Serres advanced the idea that producing information was not unique to humans—an idea he revisited in a speech delivered in 2013 to the Académie Française: “There e…”source: Wikipedia: Michel Serres
29 March 1990exact date
Académie Françaisementioned“He was elected to the Académie française on March 29, 1990, occupying seat no.”source: Wikipedia: Michel Serres
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explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
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