Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Oswald Spengler

German historian and philosopher1880 to 1936

Wikidata names Alois Riehl as doctoral advisor and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 5 other registers.

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Oswald Spengler, 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.

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

    Carlos Keller

    born 1898
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Sayyid Qutb

    born 1906

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.

Education and career3

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