Academic Ancestry

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Adolf Engler

German botanist1844 to 1930

Wikidata names Heinrich Göppert as doctoral advisor, lists 12 doctoral students, and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Adolf Engler, 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 Wikidata12

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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

    Franz Ewald Bachmann

    born 1856
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ferdinand Albin Pax

    born 1858
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Richard Kolkwitz

    born 1873

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 14 people: 14 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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