Academic Ancestry

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Bengt Ferner

Swedish astronomer and politician1724 to 1802

Wikidata lists 1 doctoral student and names Mårten Strömer and Samuel Klingenstierna as teachers. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Bengt Ferner, pictured

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Students on Wikidata1

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Teachers and mentors2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

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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 3 people: 3 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career2

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