Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Edgar Irmscher

German botanist and university teacher1887 to 1968

Wikidata names Adolf Engler as doctoral advisor and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, VIAF, and 3 other registers.

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Advisors 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.

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.

Education and career2

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