Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Johannes Kepler

German mathematician and astronomer1571 to 1630

Wikidata names Michael Maestlin and Tycho Brahe as doctoral advisors. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

Johannes Kepler, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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

    Peter Crüger

    born 1580

The line above and below4 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 career6

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