Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Mikhail Schneider

Russian/Israeli orientalist1957 to 2020

Wikidata names Moshe Idel as doctoral advisor and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, VIAF, and ISNI.

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Mikhail Schneider, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Pinchas Polonsky

    born 1958

The line above and below2 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Education and career2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.