Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Samuel Beckett across 4 places, from 1906 to 1945.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Samuel Beckett was documented, and when
13 April 1906exact date
Dublinattested“Samuel Barclay Beckett was born in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock on 13 April 1906, the son of William Frank Beckett (18711933), a quantity surveyor of Huguenot descent, and Maria Jones Roe, a nurse.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
1923 to 1927period
Trinity College Dublinattested“Beckett studied French, Italian, and English at Trinity College Dublin from 1923 to 1927 (one of his tutors – not a teaching role in TCD – was the Berkeley scholar A.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
1931year
Londonattested“He spent some time in London, where in 1931 he published Proust, his critical study of French author Marcel Proust.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
1936year
Germanyattested“Murphy was finished in 1936 and Beckett departed for extensive travel around Germany, during which time he filled several notebooks with lists of noteworthy artwork that he had seen and noted his distaste for the Nazi savagery that was o…”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
1945year
Dublinattested“In 1945, Beckett returned to Dublin for a brief visit.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
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In each of these, a source puts Samuel Beckett and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
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1919 to 1920period
Portora Royal Schoolmentioned“Around 1919 or 1920, he went to Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, which Oscar Wilde had also attended.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
1919 to 1920period
Enniskillenmentioned“Around 1919 or 1920, he went to Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, which Oscar Wilde had also attended.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
November 1928month
Campbell Collegementioned“Beckett graduated with a BA and, after teaching briefly at Campbell College in Belfast, took up the post of lecteur d'anglais at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris from November 1928 to 1930.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
November 1928month
Belfastmentioned“Beckett graduated with a BA and, after teaching briefly at Campbell College in Belfast, took up the post of lecteur d'anglais at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris from November 1928 to 1930.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
November 1928month
Parismentioned“Beckett graduated with a BA and, after teaching briefly at Campbell College in Belfast, took up the post of lecteur d'anglais at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris from November 1928 to 1930.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
1933year
Londonmentioned“In 1933 Beckett applied for the position of assistant curator at London's National Gallery.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
1934year
Dublinmentioned“He commemorated it with the poem "Gnome", which was inspired by his reading of Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and eventually published in The Dublin Magazine in 1934: Beckett travelled throughout Europe.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
26 September 1936exact date
Cobhmentioned“Later, in the winter of 1936–37, having sailed from Cobh in East Cork to Hamburg on 26 September 1936, he took a deep dive into Germany's galleries and underground collections.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
26 September 1936exact date
East Corkmentioned“Later, in the winter of 1936–37, having sailed from Cobh in East Cork to Hamburg on 26 September 1936, he took a deep dive into Germany's galleries and underground collections.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
26 September 1936exact date
Hamburgmentioned“Later, in the winter of 1936–37, having sailed from Cobh in East Cork to Hamburg on 26 September 1936, he took a deep dive into Germany's galleries and underground collections.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
1937 to 1938period
Irelandmentioned“Returning to Ireland briefly in 1937, he oversaw the publication of Murphy (1938), which he translated into French the following year.”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
January 1938month
Parismentioned“In January 1938 in Paris, Beckett was stabbed in the chest and nearly killed when he refused the solicitations of a notorious pimp (who went by the name of Prudent).”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
1939year
Irelandmentioned“Beckett remained in Paris following the outbreak of World War II in 1939, preferring, in his own words, "France at war to Ireland at peace".”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
1939year
Parismentioned“Beckett remained in Paris following the outbreak of World War II in 1939, preferring, in his own words, "France at war to Ireland at peace".”source: Wikipedia: Samuel Beckett
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explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
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