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Niklas Luhmann

1927 to 1998 3 documented presences 3 places

Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Niklas Luhmann across 3 places, from 1946 to 1968. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Niklas Luhmann (December 8, 1927 – November 11, 1998) was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and systems theorist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Niklas Luhmann was documented, and when

1946 to 1949period
Lüneburgattested “After the war Luhmann studied law at the University of Freiburg from 1946 to 1949, where he obtained a law degree, and then began a career in Lüneburg's public administration.” source: Wikipedia: Niklas Luhmann
1946 to 1949period
University of Freiburgattested “After the war Luhmann studied law at the University of Freiburg from 1946 to 1949, where he obtained a law degree, and then began a career in Lüneburg's public administration.” source: Wikipedia: Niklas Luhmann
1968 to 1993period
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Mainattested “In 1968/1969, he briefly served as a lecturer at Theodor Adorno's former chair at the University of Frankfurt and then was appointed full professor of sociology at the newly founded University of Bielefeld, Germany (until 1993).” source: Wikipedia: Niklas Luhmann

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Places Niklas Luhmann is documented in

University of Freiburg1 presence · 1946
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main1 presence · 1968
Lüneburg1 presence · 1946

Other places tied to Niklas Luhmann in the record

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1937year
Lüneburgmentioned “He entered the Gymnasium Johanneum at Lüneburg in 1937.” source: Wikipedia: Niklas Luhmann
1961year
Harvardmentioned “During a sabbatical in 1961, he went to Harvard, where he met and studied under Talcott Parsons, then the world's most influential social systems theorist.” source: Wikipedia: Niklas Luhmann
1962year
Speyermentioned “Leaving the civil service in 1962, he lectured at the national Deutsche Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften (University for Administrative Sciences) in Speyer, Germany.” source: Wikipedia: Niklas Luhmann
1965year
University of Münstermentioned “From 1965/66 he studied one semester of sociology at the University of Münster.” source: Wikipedia: Niklas Luhmann
1966year
University of Münstermentioned “Two earlier books were retroactively accepted as a PhD thesis and habilitation at the University of Münster in 1966, qualifying him for a university professorship.” source: Wikipedia: Niklas Luhmann

Documented at the same place, the same year

Fritz BauerJohann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main · 1968

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