Academic Ancestry

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Matvey Afonin

Russian botanist, student of Linnaeus (1739- 1810)1739 to 1810

Wikidata names Carl Linnaeus as doctoral advisor and names Anders Tidström, Carl Linnaeus, Friedrich Johann Buck, Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, and Torbern Bergman as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, VIAF, and 2 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Teachers and mentors5

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

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.

Education and career6

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