Academic Ancestry

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Josef Felix Pompeckj

German palaeontologist and geologist1867 to 1930

Wikidata names Wilhelm von Branca as doctoral advisor, lists 1 doctoral student, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 5 other registers.

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Josef Felix Pompeckj, 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 Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Robert Potonié

    born 1889

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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 1 person: 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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