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Wolfgang Engel

German mathematician1928 to 2010

Wikidata names Heinrich Jung and Ott-Heinrich Keller as doctoral advisors, lists 13 doctoral students, and lists 9 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 3 other registers.

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Wolfgang Engel, 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 Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata13

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught9

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

    Gerhard Geise

    born 1930
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Reinhold Haberlandt

    born 1936
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Valery Kudryavtsev

    born 1936
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Klaus-Dieter Drews

    born 1938
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Annelore Thürkow

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

    Manfred Bendler

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

    Rainer Heilmann

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

    Uwe Boosmann

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

    Wilhelm Luchtmann

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 45 people: 45 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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