Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Giorgi Chitaia

Georgian ethnographer1890 to 1986

Wikidata names Ivane Javakhishvili as doctoral advisor and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Giorgi Chitaia, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, 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.

Taught1

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

    Zurab Tsereteli

    born 1934

The line above and below3 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 career3

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