Academic Ancestry

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Vasily Gorodtsov

Russian archaeologist1860 to 1945

Wikidata names Vladimir Sizov as doctoral advisor, lists 10 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Vasily Gorodtsov, 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 Wikidata10

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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 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 76 people: 76 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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