Academic Ancestry

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Alexander Dogiel

Russian Empire histologist and neuroscientist1852 to 1922

Wikidata names Karl Arnstein as doctoral advisor, lists 2 doctoral students, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 3 other registers.

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Alexander Dogiel, 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 Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught2

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

    Anton Nemilov

    born 1879
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Dmitrij Nasonow

    born 1895

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 5 people: 5 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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