Johann Karl Burckhardt: advisors and students

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Johann Karl Burckhardt

French astronomer and mathematician1773 to 1825

Wikidata names Heinrich August Rothe and Moritz von Prasse as doctoral advisors. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Heinrich August Rothe
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Moritz von Prasse

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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 WikidataHeinrich August Rothestated by WikidataMoritz von Prasse
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stated by WikidataCarl Hindenburg
3 steps up
stated by WikidataGeorg Heinrich Bortz
4 steps up
stated by WikidataJohannes Friedrich Plessing

Theses

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Formulae de serierum reversione demonstratio universalis signis localibus combinatorio-analyticorum vicariis exhibita
doctoral thesis, stated by Wikidata

Education and career4

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1792 to 1795
Leipzig University
studied
1795 to 1798
Seeberg Observatory
worked
1798 to 1825
Bureau des Longitudes
worked
1798 to 1825
École Militaire
worked

At a glance

known as: mathematician, astronomer
awards: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1822
member of: French Academy of Sciences, from 1804, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1822, Russian Academy of Sciences, from 1801, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, from 1808, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, from 1799
Wikipedia: in 19 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJohann Karl Burckhardt
stated by WikidataWikidataQ65223
stated by WikidataVIAF27104602
stated by WikidataGND117161357
stated by WikidataIdRef030055180
stated by WikidataISNI0000000081055433

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project180311

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Read on 27 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Johann Karl Burckhardt: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q65223},
  note = {read on 2026-10-27}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 27). Johann Karl Burckhardt: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-27]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q65223