Academic Ancestry

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Mikhail Menzbier

Russian ornithologist1855 to 1935

Wikidata names Nikolai Severtzov as doctoral advisor, lists 7 doctoral students, names Anatoli Petrovich Bogdanov and Nikolai Severtzov as teachers, and lists 4 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Mikhail Menzbier, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata7

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors2

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

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

    Aleksei Severtsov

    born 1866
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Vyacheslav Deynega

    born 1873
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Leonid Portenko

    born 1896
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Andrey Nasimovich

    born 1909

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.

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

Education and career5

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