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August Kekulé

German organic chemist1829 to 1896

Wikidata names Heinrich Will, John Stenhouse, and Justus von Liebig as doctoral advisors, lists 4 doctoral students, names Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, and Justus von Liebig as teachers, and lists 5 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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August Kekulé, 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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Advisors on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors4

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

Taught5

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

    Lothar Meyer

    born 1830
  • 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

    James Dewar

    born 1842
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Emil Fischer

    born 1852
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

    born 1852

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 50 people: 50 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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