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Nikolai Berdyaev

1874 to 1948 4 documented presences 4 places

Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Nikolai Berdyaev across 4 places, from 1922. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (– 24 March 1948) was a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Nikolai Berdyaev was documented, and when

29 September 1922exact date
Berlinattested “After his expulsion from the USSR on September 29, 1922, on the so-called "Philosophers' ships", Berdyaev and other émigrés went to Berlin, where he founded an academy of philosophy and religion, but economic and political conditions in…” source: Wikipedia: Nikolai Berdyaev
29 September 1922exact date
Weimar Republicattested “After his expulsion from the USSR on September 29, 1922, on the so-called "Philosophers' ships", Berdyaev and other émigrés went to Berlin, where he founded an academy of philosophy and religion, but economic and political conditions in…” source: Wikipedia: Nikolai Berdyaev
29 September 1922exact date
Parisattested “After his expulsion from the USSR on September 29, 1922, on the so-called "Philosophers' ships", Berdyaev and other émigrés went to Berlin, where he founded an academy of philosophy and religion, but economic and political conditions in…” source: Wikipedia: Nikolai Berdyaev
29 September 1922exact date
USSRattested “After his expulsion from the USSR on September 29, 1922, on the so-called "Philosophers' ships", Berdyaev and other émigrés went to Berlin, where he founded an academy of philosophy and religion, but economic and political conditions in…” source: Wikipedia: Nikolai Berdyaev

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Places Nikolai Berdyaev is documented in

Berlin1 presence · 1922Paris1 presence · 1922USSR1 presence · 1922Weimar Republic1 presence · 1922

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1894year
Kiev Universitymentioned “Berdyaev decided on an intellectual career and entered the Kiev University in 1894.” source: Wikipedia: Nikolai Berdyaev
1897year
Vologdamentioned “His involvement in illegal activities led in 1897 to three years of internal exile to Vologda in northern Russia.” source: Wikipedia: Nikolai Berdyaev
1913 to 1922period
Siberiamentioned “In the following years, before his expulsion from the USSR in 1922, Berdyaev wrote numerous articles and several books, of which, according to him, he later truly appreciated only two — "The Meaning of Creativity" and "The Meaning of His…” source: Wikipedia: Nikolai Berdyaev
1913 to 1922period
USSRmentioned “In the following years, before his expulsion from the USSR in 1922, Berdyaev wrote numerous articles and several books, of which, according to him, he later truly appreciated only two — "The Meaning of Creativity" and "The Meaning of His…” source: Wikipedia: Nikolai Berdyaev
1920year
University of Moscowmentioned “In 1920, Berdiaev became professor of philosophy at the University of Moscow.” source: Wikipedia: Nikolai Berdyaev

Documented at the same place, the same year

Zhou EnlaiParis · 1922Dmitry KabalevskyUSSR · 1922Ivan MaiskyUSSR · 1922Konstantin StanislavskiBerlin · 1922Lucian FreudBerlin · 1922Gershom ScholemBerlin · 1922Ralph H. BaerBerlin · 1922Ödön von HorváthBerlin · 1922Edgard VarèseBerlin · 1922Mart StamBerlin · 1922Albert EinsteinParis · 1922Georges SimenonParis · 1922

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