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Leopold von Ranke

German historian and founder of modern source-based history1795 to 1886

Wikidata lists 4 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Students on Wikidata4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

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

Taught9

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

    Georg Waitz

    born 1813
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Jacob Burckhardt

    born 1818
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch

    born 1818
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Wilhelm Wattenbach

    born 1819
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Adolf Holm

    born 1830
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Wilhelm Deecke

    born 1831
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Eduard Winkelmann

    born 1838
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Kurt August Gehlert

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

    Albert Hauck

    born 1845

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 27 people: 27 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career3

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