Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Ludwig Curtius

German classical archeologist1874 to 1954

Wikidata lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

Ludwig Curtius, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught4

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

    Otto Brendel

    born 1901
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

The line above and below

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 2 people: 2 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career6

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