Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Johanna Westerdijk

Dutch botanist, plant pathologist and mycologist1883 to 1961

Wikidata names Hans Schinz as doctoral advisor, lists 5 doctoral students, and lists 4 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 3 other registers.

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Johanna Westerdijk, 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 Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata5

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught4

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 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 6 people: 6 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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