Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Stefan George across 6 places, from 1888 to 1933.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Stefan Anton George (12 July 1868 to 4 December 1933) was a German symbolist poet and a translator of Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Hesiod, and Charles Baudelaire.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Stefan George is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Stefan George was documented, and when
October 1888month
Londonattested“My father was glad to get rid of me, for he sensed the danger." Hoping to improve his grasp of English, George lived in London between May and October 1888.”source: Wikipedia: Stefan George
May 1889month
Parisattested“George later recalled, "Can you imagine anything more contradictory than that I, the socialist, communard, atheist, should play in a comedy with a German baron in the house of a professor of theology surrounded by a whole bevy of society…”source: Wikipedia: Stefan George
1922year
20 July plotattested“But George had dedicated the work, which includes the lyric "" () written in 1922, to Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, who, with his brother Claus, took a leading role in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow t…”source: Wikipedia: Stefan George
1928year
Parisattested“The French Symbolists were every bit as enthusiastic for George, as is revealed by the evidence of their surviving letters and subsequent memoirs of his visit to Paris, which were published in a 1928 theme issue of the .”source: Wikipedia: Stefan George
1933year
Germanyattested“According to the Metzgers, "When Stefan George died in 1933, there was a grim dissonance between the eulogies from inside and outside Germany, the former claiming George as the prophet of the Third Reich, which had taken power that year,…”source: Wikipedia: Stefan George
27 September 1933exact date
Minusioattested“Berthold von Stauffenberg arrived at Minusio on 27 September 1933, shortly after having attended the wedding at Bamberg of his brother Claus to Baroness Nina von Lerchenfeld, and found George feeling very weak and devoid of appetite.”source: Wikipedia: Stefan George
27 September 1933exact date
Bambergattested“Berthold von Stauffenberg arrived at Minusio on 27 September 1933, shortly after having attended the wedding at Bamberg of his brother Claus to Baroness Nina von Lerchenfeld, and found George feeling very weak and devoid of appetite.”source: Wikipedia: Stefan George
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1882 to 1888period
Darmstadtmentioned“There, from 1882 to 1888, Stefan, "received a vigorous humanistic education in which Greek, Latin, and French were stressed." Stefan "excelled in French" and gained "a thorough knowledge of modern European literature, as well as of the G…”source: Wikipedia: Stefan George
1890year
Parismentioned“Even so, "Stefan George's experience in Paris during the early 1890's ...”source: Wikipedia: Stefan George
25 July 1933exact date
Wasserburg am Bodenseementioned“On 25 July 1933 George travelled to Wasserburg on Lake Constance, where he remained for four weeks.”source: Wikipedia: Stefan George
24 August 1933exact date
Heiden, Switzerlandmentioned“On 24 August 1933 George took a ferry across the lake to Heiden, Switzerland.”source: Wikipedia: Stefan George
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