Academic Ancestry

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Walter Georg Waffenschmidt

German economist1887 to 1980

Wikidata names Friedrich Engesser and Paul Mombert as doctoral advisors, lists 2 doctoral students, and names Paul Mombert as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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.

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

    Paul Mombert

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 8 people: 8 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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