Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Nikolay Kaufman

Botanist1834 to 1870

Wikidata names Karl Frantsevich Rouillier as doctoral advisor, lists 2 doctoral students, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, VIAF, and 2 other registers.

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Nikolay Kaufman, 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 Wikidata2

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

    Q4516613

    born 1843
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ivan Nikolaevich Gorozhankin

    born 1848
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Piotr Mayevski

    born 1851

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 2 people: 2 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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