Academic Ancestry

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Vasily Radlov

German-born Russian turkologist and ethnographer1837 to 1918

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

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Vasily Radlov, 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 Wikidata4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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

    Nikolai Katanov

    born 1862
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Platon Melioransky

    born 1868
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Sergei Shirokogorov

    born 1887

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 29 people: 29 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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