Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Georg Curtius

German classical scholar and philologist1820 to 1885

Wikidata lists 2 doctoral students and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Georg 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.

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Students on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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 Delitzsch

    born 1850
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Arthur Chuquet

    born 1853
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ferdinand de Saussure

    born 1857

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 42 people: 42 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career5

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