Academic Ancestry

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Theodore Beza

French Reformed Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar1519 to 1605

Wikidata names Melchior Volmar as doctoral advisor, lists 2 doctoral students, names Melchior Volmar as teacher, and lists 6 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Theodore Beza, 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.

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

    Melchior Volmar

Taught6

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

    Guido de Bres

    born 1522
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Peter Young

    born 1544
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jean de Sponde

    born 1557
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Dominicus Baudius

    born 1561
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Johannes Buxtorf

    born 1564
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Johann Philipp Pareus

    born 1576

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 4 people: 4 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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