Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Hermann Oppenheim

German neurologist1857 to 1919

Wikidata names Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal as doctoral advisor and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Hermann Oppenheim, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Arthur Simons

    born 1877

The line above and below2 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.

Education and career2

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