Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Tycho Brahe

Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–16011546 to 1601

Wikidata names Caspar Peucer and Valentin Thau as doctoral advisors and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

Tycho Brahe, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

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.

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

    David Gans

    born 1541
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Paul Wittich

    born 1546
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Simon Marius

    born 1573
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Peter Crüger

    born 1580

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 career4

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