Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Wolfgang Willems

Ph.D. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz 1976

Wikidata names Bertram Huppert as doctoral advisor, lists 4 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 3 other registers.

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

How to read the marksstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlex

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata4

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

    Anton Malevich

The line above and below4 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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 4 people: 4 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career1

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