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Emil Fischer

German chemist1852 to 1919

Wikidata names Adolf von Baeyer as doctoral advisor and lists 13 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Adolf von Baeyer

Students on Wikidata13

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Ludwig Knorr
born 1859
stated by Wikidata
Julius Tafel
born 1862
stated by Wikidata
Carl Harries
born 1866
stated by Wikidata
Oskar Piloty
born 1866
stated by Wikidata
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
born 1873
stated by Wikidata
Alfred Stock
born 1876
stated by Wikidata
Otto Diels
born 1876
stated by Wikidata
Hermann Leuchs
born 1879
stated by Wikidata
Hans Fischer
born 1881
stated by Wikidata
Otto Heinrich Warburg
born 1883
stated by Wikidata
Walter Abraham Jacobs
born 1883
stated by Wikidata
Karl Johann Freudenberg
born 1886
stated by Wikidata
Max Bergmann
born 1886

Teachers and mentors1

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
August Kekulé

Taught7

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
Ludwig Knorr
born 1859
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Oskar Piloty
born 1866
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Fritz Pregl
born 1869
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Adolf Windaus
born 1876
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Otto Diels
born 1876
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Hans Fischer
born 1881
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Otto Heinrich Warburg
born 1883

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.

1 step up
stated by WikidataAdolf von Baeyer
2 steps up
stated by WikidataAugust Kekuléstated by WikidataRobert Bunsen
3 steps up
stated by WikidataFriedrich Stromeyerstated by WikidataHeinrich Willstated by WikidataJohn Stenhousestated by WikidataJustus von Liebig
4 steps up
stated by WikidataJohann Friedrich Blumenbachstated by WikidataJohann Friedrich Gmelinstated by WikidataKarl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastnerstated by WikidataThomas Graham

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 31 people: 31 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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

undated
University of Bonn
studied
undated
University of Strasbourg
studied
undated
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
worked
undated
University of Würzburg
worked
undated
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
worked
undated
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
worked
undated
University of Strasbourg
worked

At a glance

known as: biochemist, chemist, university teacher, organic chemist
fields: chemistry
degrees: professor
awards: Faraday Lectureship Prize, 1907, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1902, Elliott Cresson Medal, 1913, Helmholtz Medal, 1909, Cothenius Medal, 1898, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, 1898, Davy Medal, 1890, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1899, Baly Medal, 1909, honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1901
member of: Royal Society of London, from 1899, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, from 1907, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1908, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1899, Russian Academy of Sciences, from 1913, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Académie Nationale de Médecine, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, from 1881, National Academy of Sciences, from 1904, Academy of Sciences of Turin, from 1897, Romanian Academy, from 1913, American Philosophical Society, from 1909, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1903
Wikipedia: in 90 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere7

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaEmil Fischer
stated by WikidataWikidataQ70554
stated by WikidataVIAF71489994
stated by WikidataGND118691155
stated by WikidataIdRef028000323
stated by WikidataISNI0000000109140868

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project159714

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Read on 22 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q70554,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Emil Fischer: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q70554},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Emil Fischer: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q70554