Academic Ancestry

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

French phenomenological philosopher1908 to 1961

Wikidata lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, pictured

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Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors4

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

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

    Yvonne Picard

    born 1920
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Claude Lefort

    born 1924
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Paul Virilio

    born 1932

The line above and below

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 26 people: 26 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career6

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