Academic Ancestry

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Max Weber

German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist1864 to 1920

Wikidata names August Meitzen, Levin Goldschmidt, and Rudolf von Gneist as doctoral advisors and lists 3 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Max Weber, 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 Wikidata3

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

    Jacob Heimans

    born 1889
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Alfred Schütz

    born 1899
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Harold Garfinkel

    born 1917

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.

Education and career10

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