Walter Benjamin
1892 to 1940
9 documented presences
8 places
Quo Fuit places 9 dated presences for Walter Benjamin across 8 places, from 1895 to 1932. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Walter Benjamin was documented, and when
1895 to 1946period
Berlinattested
“Walter Benjamin and his younger siblings, Georg (1895–1942) and Dora (1901–1946), were born to a wealthy business family of assimilated Ashkenazi Jews in Berlin, then the capital of the German Empire.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1901year
Charlottenburgattested
“In 1901, the eight-year-old Walter was enrolled at the Kaiser Friedrich School in Charlottenburg; he completed his secondary school studies ten years later.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1915year
University of Munichattested
“The next year, 1915, Benjamin moved to Munich and continued his schooling at the University of Munich, where he met Rainer Maria Rilke and Scholem; the latter became a lifelong friend.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1915year
Munichattested
“The next year, 1915, Benjamin moved to Munich and continued his schooling at the University of Munich, where he met Rainer Maria Rilke and Scholem; the latter became a lifelong friend.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1923year
Frankfurtattested
“In 1923, when the Institute for Social Research was founded, later to become home to the Frankfurt School, Benjamin published Charles Baudelaire, Tableaux Parisiens.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1925year
Germanyattested
“Benjamin presented the work to the University of Frankfurt in 1925 as the postdoctoral dissertation meant to earn him the habilitation (qualification) to become a university instructor in Germany.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
December 1926month
Moscowattested
“In December 1926, the year his father died, Benjamin went to Moscow to meet Lācis and found her ill in a sanatorium.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1932year
Niceattested
“In 1932, during the turmoil preceding Adolf Hitler's assumption of the office of Chancellor of Germany, Benjamin left Germany temporarily for the Spanish island of Ibiza where he stayed for some months; he then moved to Nice, where he co…”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1932year
Germanyattested
“In 1932, during the turmoil preceding Adolf Hitler's assumption of the office of Chancellor of Germany, Benjamin left Germany temporarily for the Spanish island of Ibiza where he stayed for some months; he then moved to Nice, where he co…”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
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Places Walter Benjamin is documented in
Germany2 presences · 1925 to 1932Berlin1 presence · 1895Charlottenburg1 presence · 1901Frankfurt1 presence · 1923Moscow1 presence · 1926Munich1 presence · 1915Nice1 presence · 1932
University of Munich1 presence · 1915
Other places tied to Walter Benjamin in the record
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1905 to 1907period
Berlinmentioned
“In his youth, Walter was of fragile health and so in 1905 the family sent him to Hermann-Lietz-Schule Haubinda, part of the German rural boarding school movement in the Thuringian countryside, for two years; in 1907, having returned to B…”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1912year
Berlinmentioned
“In 1912, at the age of 20, he enrolled at the University of Freiburg, but at the summer semester's end, he returned to Berlin and matriculated at the University of Berlin to continue studying philosophy.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1912year
University of Freiburgmentioned
“In 1912, at the age of 20, he enrolled at the University of Freiburg, but at the summer semester's end, he returned to Berlin and matriculated at the University of Berlin to continue studying philosophy.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1912year
Humboldt University of Berlinmentioned
“In 1912, at the age of 20, he enrolled at the University of Freiburg, but at the summer semester's end, he returned to Berlin and matriculated at the University of Berlin to continue studying philosophy.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1913year
Freiburgmentioned
“He attended the same seminar as Heidegger at Freiburg in the summer of 1913 when both men were still university students: concepts first encountered there influenced their thought for the remainder of their careers.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1917year
University of Bernmentioned
“In 1917 Benjamin transferred to the University of Bern; there he met Ernst Bloch, and Dora Sophie Pollak (née Kellner), whom he married.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1919year
Germanymentioned
“In 1919 Benjamin earned his PhD summa cum laude with the dissertation Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der deutschen Romantik (The Concept of Art Criticism in German Romanticism).”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1923year
Palestinementioned
“At the end of 1923 Scholem emigrated to Palestine; despite repeated invitations, he failed to persuade Benjamin (and family) to follow him.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1925year
University of Frankfurt am Mainmentioned
“A year later, in 1925, Benjamin withdrew The Origin of German Tragic Drama as his possible qualification for the habilitation teaching credential at the University of Frankfurt am Main at Frankfurt am Main, fearing its possible rejection.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1925year
Frankfurtmentioned
“A year later, in 1925, Benjamin withdrew The Origin of German Tragic Drama as his possible qualification for the habilitation teaching credential at the University of Frankfurt am Main at Frankfurt am Main, fearing its possible rejection.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1926year
Parismentioned
“The next year, 1926, he began writing for the German newspapers Frankfurter Zeitung and Die Literarische Welt (The Literary World); that paid enough for him to reside in Paris for some months.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1928year
Caprimentioned
“Einbahnstraße (One Way Street, 1928) is a series of meditations written primarily during the same phase as The Origin of German Tragic Drama, after Benjamin had met Asja Lācis on the beach at Capri in 1924.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1931 to 1932period
Frankfurtmentioned
“Adorno's 1931 and 1932 seminars, delivered at Frankfurt University, devoted themselves to a close reading of The Origin of German Tragic Drama.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
1931 to 1932period
Frankfurt Universitymentioned
“Adorno's 1931 and 1932 seminars, delivered at Frankfurt University, devoted themselves to a close reading of The Origin of German Tragic Drama.”
source: Wikipedia: Walter Benjamin
27 February 1933exact date
1936year
1938year
January 1940month
25 September 1940exact date
Documented at the same place, the same year
Lev VygotskySoviet Union · 1926Noe ZhordaniaBerlin · 1895Josef KramerMunich · 1915Houston Stewart ChamberlainMunich · 1915Deng XiaopingSoviet Union · 1926Vladimir MayakovskySoviet Union · 1926Vidkun QuislingSoviet Union · 1926Felix DzerzhinskySoviet Union · 1926Zhu DeSoviet Union · 1926Viktor VasnetsovSoviet Union · 1926Ludwig Mies van der RoheGermany · 1932Hedy LamarrGermany · 1932
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