Quo Fuit places 9 dated presences for Vilém Flusser across 8 places, from 1920 to 1981.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Vilém Flusser (May 12, 1920 – November 27, 1991) was a Czech-born Brazilian philosopher, writer and journalist, best known for his contributions to media studies, communication theory, and the philosophy of language.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Vilém Flusser is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Vilém Flusser was documented, and when
1920year
Pragueattested“Flusser was born in 1920 in Prague, Czechoslovakia into a family of Jewish intellectuals.”source: Wikipedia: Vilém Flusser
1938year
Pragueattested“In 1938, Flusser started to study philosophy at the Juridical Faculty of the Charles University in Prague.”source: Wikipedia: Vilém Flusser
1939year
London School of Economicsattested“In 1939, shortly after the Nazi occupation, Flusser emigrated to London (with Edith Barth, his later wife, and her parents) to continue his studies for one term at the London School of Economics and Political Science.”source: Wikipedia: Vilém Flusser
1939year
Londonattested“In 1939, shortly after the Nazi occupation, Flusser emigrated to London (with Edith Barth, his later wife, and her parents) to continue his studies for one term at the London School of Economics and Political Science.”source: Wikipedia: Vilém Flusser
1940year
Buchenwaldattested“Vilém Flusser lost all of his family in the German concentration camps: his father died in Buchenwald in 1940; his grandparents, his mother and his sister were brought to Theresienstadt and later to Auschwitz where they were killed.”source: Wikipedia: Vilém Flusser
1940year
Theresienstadtattested“Vilém Flusser lost all of his family in the German concentration camps: his father died in Buchenwald in 1940; his grandparents, his mother and his sister were brought to Theresienstadt and later to Auschwitz where they were killed.”source: Wikipedia: Vilém Flusser
1940year
Auschwitzattested“Vilém Flusser lost all of his family in the German concentration camps: his father died in Buchenwald in 1940; his grandparents, his mother and his sister were brought to Theresienstadt and later to Auschwitz where they were killed.”source: Wikipedia: Vilém Flusser
1963year
São Pauloattested“Flusser and Vicente Ferreira da Silva met in São Paulo in the 1960s and began a close intellectual dialogue that continued until Ferreira da Silva's death in 1963.”source: Wikipedia: Vilém Flusser
1981 to 1991period
Robionattested“Further short stays in various European countries followed until they moved to Robion in southern France in 1981, where they remained until Flusser's death in 1991.”source: Wikipedia: Vilém Flusser
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1960year
São Paulomentioned“In 1960 he started to collaborate with the Brazilian Institute of Philosophy (IBF) in São Paulo and published in the Revista Brasileira de Filosofia; by these means he seriously approached the Brazilian intellectual community.”source: Wikipedia: Vilém Flusser
1970year
University of São Paulomentioned“In 1970, when a reform took place at the University of São Paulo by the Brazilian military government, all Lecturers of Philosophy (members of the Department of Philosophy) were dismissed.”source: Wikipedia: Vilém Flusser
1972year
Meranomentioned“In 1972 he and his wife Edith settled temporarily in Merano (Tyrol).”source: Wikipedia: Vilém Flusser
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