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1901	Born Wilna, Lithania, to G, Meyer (Business, Timber Exporter) and Eva Bloch. Religion: Jewish.
1906	Came to Danzig (Germany, now Poland).
1919	Passed the “Reifeprüfung” at the Danzig “Gymnasium”
1919–1920	University of Berlin, studied Philosophy and German Literature. A protege of Stumpf. Went to Freiburg and heard Husserl's lectures on "Nature and Spirit."
1920–1928	Attended University of Frankfurt. Originally studied medicine and mathematics, later philosophy.
1928	Passed last oral exam of dissertation in philosophy at Göttingen University, Germany; Instructor: Prof. Geiger, second instructor: Misch.
1929	Married with Alice Stern. Husserl starts reading Gurwitsch’s dissertation. [See Schuhmann, Karl. Husserl-Chronik. p. 355]
1929–1933	Research fellow in philosophy of the Prussian Ministery of Science, Arts, and Public Instruction (“Ministerium für Wissenschaften und Künste”) Berlin, Assistant to Moritz Geiger in Göttingen. Frequently contributed to Frankfurter Israelitisches Gemeindeblatt
1933	Emigration to France
1933 – 40	Lecturer in philosophy, Institut d’Histoire des Scis, Sorbonne;
1939–40	Research fellow, Caisse Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
1940	Emigration to U.S.
1940 – 42	Visiting lecturer, Johns Hopkins University.
1943 – 46	Instructor of physics, Harvard University.
1947 – 48	Visiting professor of mathematics Wheaton College, Norton. (MA).
1948	Assistant professor of mathematics. Waltham (MA).
1948 – 59	Member of the faculty, Brandeis University.
1951	Associate professor of philososophy
1958–59	Fulbright senior lecturer and visiting professor of philosophy at University Cologne, Germany
1959–73	Professor of philosophy, graduate faculty of political and social sciences, New School for Social Research, New York
1962	Visiting professor at university of Puerto Rico
1968	Visiting professor at University of Mainz, Germany.
1973	Died in Zurich, Switzerland.