Academic Ancestry

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Herbert Beckert

German mathematician1920 to 2004

Wikidata names Ernst Hölder and Walter Schnee as doctoral advisors, lists 25 doctoral students, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 5 other registers.

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Herbert Beckert, 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 Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata25

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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

    Siegbert Fröhlich

    born 1929
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Rolf Klötzler

    born 1931
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Wolfgang Tutschke

    born 1934

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 195 people: 195 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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