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Torbern Bergman

Swedish chemist1735 to 1784

Wikidata names Bengt Ferner as doctoral advisor, lists 2 doctoral students, and lists 5 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Torbern Bergman, 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 Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught5

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

    Matvey Afonin

    born 1739
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Carl Wilhelm Scheele

    born 1742
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Johan Gottlieb Gahn

    born 1745
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Johan Afzelius

    born 1753
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Johan Gadolin

    born 1760

The line above and below1 step

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 2 people: 2 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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