Academic Ancestry

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Hugo von Seeliger

German astronomer1849 to 1924

Wikidata names Karl Christian Bruhns as doctoral advisor and lists 19 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Hugo von Seeliger, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata19

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Egon Oppolzer

    born 1869

The line above and below4 steps

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 224 people: 224 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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