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Robert Koch

German physician, bacteriologist1843 to 1910

Wikidata names Georg Meissner and Rudolf Virchow as doctoral advisors and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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

    John Addison Fordyce

    born 1858
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Alexander Crever Abbott

    born 1860
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    August von Wassermann

    born 1866
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Johannes Fibiger

    born 1867
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Pyotr Vasilyev

    born 1867
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Wilhelm Kolle

    born 1868

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 12 people: 12 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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