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Sebastian Finsterwalder

Bavarian mathematician and surveyor1862 to 1951

Wikidata names Alexander von Brill as doctoral advisor and lists 43 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Sebastian Finsterwalder, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata43

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught6

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

    Gustav Clauss

    born 1871
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Hans Hartinger

    born 1891
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Othmar Baier

    born 1905
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Eduard Lehr

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

    Paul Stauber

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

    Walter Zink

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 154 people: 154 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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