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Franz Boas

German-American anthropologist1858 to 1942

Wikidata names Gustav Karsten as doctoral advisor and lists 25 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Gustav Karsten

Students on Wikidata25

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Laura Estelle Watson Benedict
born 1861
stated by Wikidata
Alexander Francis Chamberlain
born 1865
stated by Wikidata
William Jones
born 1871
stated by Wikidata
Alfred L. Kroeber
born 1876
stated by Wikidata
Alexander Goldenweiser
born 1880
stated by Wikidata
Manuel Gamio
born 1883
stated by Wikidata
Paul Radin
born 1883
stated by Wikidata
Robert Lowie
born 1883
stated by Wikidata
Edward Sapir
born 1884
stated by Wikidata
Thomas Talbot Waterman
born 1885
stated by Wikidata
Ruth Benedict
born 1887
stated by Wikidata
Gladys Reichard
born 1893
stated by Wikidata
Leslie Spier
born 1893
stated by Wikidata
Melville J. Herskovits
born 1895
stated by Wikidata
Ruth Sawtell Wallis
born 1895
stated by Wikidata
George Herzog
born 1901
stated by Wikidata
Margaret Mead
born 1901
stated by Wikidata
Alexander Lesser
born 1902
stated by Wikidata
Gene Weltfish
born 1902
stated by Wikidata
Melville Jacobs
born 1902
stated by Wikidata
David Efron
born 1904
stated by Wikidata
William Lipkind
born 1904
stated by Wikidata
E. Adamson Hoebel
born 1906
stated by Wikidata
Edward A. Kennard
born 1907
stated by Wikidata
Irving Goldman
born 1911

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.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Carl Ritter
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Friedrich Ratzel
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Theobald Fischer
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Wilhelm Wundt

Taught10

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
Alfred L. Kroeber
born 1876
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Alexander Goldenweiser
born 1880
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Robert Lowie
born 1883
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Edward Sapir
born 1884
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Ruth Benedict
born 1887
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Gladys Reichard
born 1893
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Melville J. Herskovits
born 1895
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Frederica de Laguna
born 1906
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
May Mandelbaum Edel
born 1909
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Joseph Greenberg
born 1915

The line above and below1 step

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.

1 step up
stated by WikidataGustav Karsten

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 44 people: 44 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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

until 1881
Kiel University
studied
undated
University of Bonn
studied
undated
Heidelberg University
studied
undated
Kiel University
studied
undated
Columbia University
worked
undated
Clark University
worked
undated
Smithsonian Institution
worked
undated
American Museum of Natural History
worked

At a glance

known as: anthropologist, linguist, university teacher, geographer, philosopher, curator, art historian, ethnographer, ethnologist, physicist
fields: anthropology, particular law, relativism
member of: Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, National Academy of Sciences, from 1900, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, American Antiquarian Society, 1908, Linguistic Society of America, Burschenschaft Alemannia Bonn, American Philosophical Society, from 1903
notable works: The Mind of Primitive Man
Wikipedia: in 69 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere12

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaFranz Boas
stated by WikidataWikidataQ76857
stated by WikidataVIAF25308
stated by WikidataGND118512153
stated by WikidataIdRef028458486
stated by WikidataISNI0000000120954141

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lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project227430

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Read on 22 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q76857,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Franz Boas: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q76857},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Franz Boas: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q76857