Academic Ancestry

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Sylvain Lévi

French orientalist and indologist1863 to 1935

Wikidata lists 1 doctoral student, names Philippe Édouard Foucaux as teacher, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Sylvain Lévi, pictured

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Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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.

Taught2

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

    Antoine Meillet

    born 1866
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Albert Baston

    born 1880

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 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career4

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