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Robert Bunsen

German chemist1811 to 1899

Wikidata names Friedrich Stromeyer as doctoral advisor and lists 30 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Friedrich Stromeyer

Students on Wikidata30

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
born 1818
stated by Wikidata
John Tyndall
born 1820
stated by Wikidata
Edward Frankland
born 1825
stated by Wikidata
Georg Ludwig Carius
born 1829
stated by Wikidata
Johann August Streng
born 1830
stated by Wikidata
Lothar Meyer
born 1830
stated by Wikidata
Eugene W. Hilgard
born 1833
stated by Wikidata
Carl Schorlemmer
born 1834
stated by Wikidata
Hermann Sprengel
born 1834
stated by Wikidata
Adolf von Baeyer
born 1835
stated by Wikidata
Adolf Lieben
born 1836
stated by Wikidata
James Crafts
born 1839
stated by Wikidata
Carl Gräbe
born 1841
stated by Wikidata
Albert Ladenburg
born 1842
stated by Wikidata
Carl Theodore Liebermann
born 1842
stated by Wikidata
Heinrich Martin Weber
born 1842
stated by Wikidata
Ferdinand Hurter
born 1844
stated by Wikidata
Thomas Edward Thorpe
born 1845
stated by Wikidata
Francis Robert Japp
born 1848
stated by Wikidata
Loránd Eötvös
born 1848
stated by Wikidata
Viktor Meyer
born 1848
stated by Wikidata
Guido Goldschmiedt
born 1850
stated by Wikidata
Walther Hempel
born 1851
stated by Wikidata
Carl Auer von Welsbach
born 1858
stated by Wikidata
Gerhard Krüss
born 1859
stated by Wikidata
Hans Goldschmidt
born 1861
stated by Wikidata
Charles Lee Reese
born 1862
stated by Wikidata
Philipp Lenard
born 1862
stated by Wikidata
Friedrich Raschig
born 1863
stated by Wikidata
Fritz Haber
born 1868

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
Friedrich Stromeyer

Taught22

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
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
born 1818
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
John Tyndall
born 1820
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Heinrich Debus
born 1824
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Edward Frankland
born 1825
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Jacques-Louis Soret
born 1827
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Robert McNair Ferguson
born 1829
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Henry Enfield Roscoe
born 1833
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Carl Schorlemmer
born 1834
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Adolf von Baeyer
born 1835
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Louis Ernst
born 1839
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Ludwig Mond
born 1839
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Philipp Immerwahr
born 1839
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Dmitry Lachinov
born 1842
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Eugen Sell
born 1842
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Leo Gans
born 1843
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Viktor Meyer
born 1848
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Walther Hempel
born 1851
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Rudolf Benedikt
born 1852
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Charles Soret
born 1854
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Émile Meyerson
born 1859
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Philipp Lenard
born 1862
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Fritz Haber
born 1868

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 WikidataFriedrich Stromeyer
2 steps up
stated by WikidataJohann Friedrich Blumenbachstated by WikidataJohann Friedrich Gmelin
3 steps up
stated by WikidataChristian Wilhelm Buettnerstated by WikidataFerdinand Christoph Oetingerstated by WikidataPhilipp Friedrich Gmelin
4 steps up
stated by WikidataBurchard Mauchart

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 236 people: 236 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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

from 1828
University of Göttingen
studied
1834 to 1836
University of Göttingen
worked
1836 to 1839
Höhere Gewerbeschule Kassel
worked
1839 to 1851
University of Marburg
worked
1851 to 1852
University of Wrocław
worked
from 1852
Heidelberg University
worked
undated
Frederick William University Berlin
studied
undated
University of Vienna
studied

At a glance

known as: chemist, physicist, inventor, university teacher, teacher, experimentalist, naturalist
fields: spectrochemical analysis, chemistry, spectral analysis
degrees: Doctor of Sciences in Chemistry, 1831, professor, 1834
awards: Davy Medal, 1877, Copley Medal, 1860, Albert Medal, 1898, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, 1864, Helmholtz Medal, 1892, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, 1865, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 1858, honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1839
member of: Royal Society of London, from 1858, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, from 1851, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1864, Russian Academy of Sciences, from 1862, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Académie Nationale de Médecine, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, from 1855, National Academy of Sciences, from 1864, Association for Natural History in the Duchy of Nassau, from 1881, Academy of Sciences of Turin, from 1849, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, from 1875
Wikipedia: in 81 languages

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

Elsewhere8

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaRobert Bunsen
stated by WikidataWikidataQ71031
stated by WikidataVIAF61621398
stated by WikidataGND118664999
stated by WikidataIdRef077220838
stated by WikidataISNI0000000109073706

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lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project123967

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@misc{academicancestry_Q71031,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Robert Bunsen: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q71031},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Robert Bunsen: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q71031