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Johann Kies

German astronomer and mathematician1713 to 1781

Wikidata names Christian Eberhard Weißmann as doctoral advisor and lists 16 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata16

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught3

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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 16 people: 16 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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