Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Emil Erlenmeyer

German chemist1825 to 1909

Wikidata names Justus von Liebig as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 3 other registers.

Emil Erlenmeyer, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught4

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

    Louis Ernst

    born 1839
  • 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

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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 7 people: 7 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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