Birth of Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre is born in Paris to Jean-Baptiste Sartre and Anne-Marie Schweitzer.
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Jean-Paul Sartre Biography and Timeline
Follow Jean-Paul Sartre through 15 dated historical records for France.
Jean-Paul Sartre, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1905–1980Years on this page
1905
Birth of Jean-Paul Sartre
Birth of Jean-Paul Sartre
1924
Ecole Normale Superieure
Sartre enters the Ecole Normale Superieure and joins an influential philosophical generation.
1929
Agregation in Philosophy
Sartre places first in the philosophy agregation and meets Simone de Beauvoir.
1937
Nausea
Publication of "Nausea"
1938
Nausea
Sartre publishes Nausea, a novel exploring contingency, freedom and existential unease.
1940
German Captivity
Sartre is captured during the German invasion and spends months as a prisoner of war.
1943
Being and Nothingness
Sartre publishes Being and Nothingness, his major work of existential phenomenology.
1945
Les Temps Modernes
Sartre helps establish Les Temps Modernes as a journal of engaged literature and politics.
Being and Nothingness
Publication of "Roads to Freedom". Publication of "Being & Nothingness"
Roads to Freedom
Publication of "Roads to Freedom". Publication of "Being & Nothingness"
1946
Existentialism Is a Humanism
Sartre publishes a lecture defending existentialism against prominent critics.
1960
Critique of Dialectical Reason
Publication of "Critique of Dialectical Reason"
1964
Refusal of Nobel Prize
Sartre declines the Nobel Prize in Literature to preserve his independence from institutions.
1980
Death of Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre dies in Paris, aged seventy-four.
Records, sources and methodology
These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.