Academic Ancestry

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Igor Mel'čuk

Russian-Canadian linguist and translation scholarborn 1932

Wikidata names Vyacheslav Ivanov as doctoral advisor, lists 2 doctoral students, and names Vyacheslav Ivanov as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 other registers.

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Igor Mel'čuk, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

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.

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 3 people: 3 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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