Academic Ancestry

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Erasmus Reinhold

German astronomer and mathematician1511 to 1553

Wikidata names Jacob Milich as doctoral advisor, lists 4 doctoral students, and lists 5 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Erasmus Reinhold, 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 Wikidata4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught5

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

    Sebastian Theodoricus

    born 1521
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Michael Beuther

    born 1522
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Valentin Naboth

    born 1523
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Matthias Stojus

    born 1526
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Bartholomaeus Schönborn

    born 1530

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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 10 people: 10 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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