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Wilhelm Pfeffer

German botanist1845 to 1920

Wikidata names Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig as doctoral advisor and lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig

Students on Wikidata1

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Q80013922
born 1873

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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.

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stated by WikidataWilhelm Rudolph Fittig
2 steps up
stated by WikidataHeinrich Limpricht
3 steps up
stated by WikidataFriedrich Wöhler
4 steps up
stated by WikidataJöns Jacob Berzeliusstated by WikidataLeopold Gmelin

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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from 1863
University of Göttingen
studied
from 1868
University of Marburg
studied
from 1871
University of Marburg
worked
from 1873
University of Bonn
worked
from 1877
University of Basel
worked
from 1878
University of Tübingen
worked
from 1887
Leipzig University
worked
undated
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
studied

At a glance

known as: botanist, pharmacist, university teacher, physiologist, botanical collector, scientific collector, plant physiologist, biologist
fields: botany
degrees: Doctor of Philosophy, 1865, habilitation, 1871
awards: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, 1895, Croonian Medal and Lecture, 1898, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, 1908, Cothenius Medal, 1910
member of: German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, from 1880, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, from 1880, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, from 1887, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, from 1889, Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, from 1895, Royal Society of London, from 1897, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, from 1897, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1897, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, from 1902, National Academy of Sciences, from 1903, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, from 1908, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Corps Frisia Göttingen, Burschenschaft Arminia Marburg, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1899
notable works: Pfeffer cell
Wikipedia: in 21 languages

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Elsewhere6

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaWilhelm Pfeffer
stated by WikidataWikidataQ62767
stated by WikidataVIAF2707623
stated by WikidataGND118740733
stated by WikidataIdRef111973082
stated by WikidataISNI0000000121181398

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@misc{academicancestry_Q62767,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Wilhelm Pfeffer: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q62767},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Wilhelm Pfeffer: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q62767