Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Joseph Orbeli

Soviet orientalist1887 to 1961

Wikidata names Nikolai Marr as doctoral advisor, lists 6 doctoral students, names Nikolai Marr as teacher, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Joseph Orbeli, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, 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.

Students on Wikidata6

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

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

    Nikolai Marr

Taught2

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

    Boris Piotrovsky

    born 1908
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Suren Yeremyan

    born 1908

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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 10 people: 10 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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