One of the things that has been of interest to me since I started my doctorate was getting to know my academic ancestry; linking each doctoral candidate to their doctoral supervisor(s). I wanted to see how far back I can go and see if any names pop up that I have learned about in school or university, studied or used their contributions during my doctoral work myself. I tried to be methodolgical and find multiple sources that converge to the same links. But of course, many times I could only go on whatever information I could find in mentions. If you know any places where I haven’t gotten the real or complete story, please drop me a line!

Now without further ado, I present to you my academic ancestry (with the year of attaining the doctoral degree given as well).

Karlheinz Tröndle(1970)Hans Marko(1953)Richard Feldkeller(1924)Hans Rosenbusch(1868)Gustav Mie(1899)Karl Eduard Franz Schmidt (1886)Johann Reinhard Blum(1826)Robert Wilhelm Bunsen(1831)Karl Cäsar Ritter vonLeonhard (1803)Johann FriedrichBlumenbach (1775)Friedrich Stromeyer(1800)Leo Königsberger(1860)Johann FriedrichGmelin (1768)Philipp FriedrichGmelin (1742)Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1768)Burchard DavidMauchard (1742)Ernst Kummer(1831)Karl WeierstraßChristoph GudermannHeinrich Scherk(1823)Friedrich Bessel(1810)Carl Gauss(1799)Heinrich WilhelmBrandes (1800)Elias RudolphCamerarius, Sr. (1663)Elias RudolphCamerarius, Jr. (1691)Georg BalthasarMetzger (1646/1650)Gottfried Möbius(1640)Johann Jakob von Brunn(1615)Werner Rolfinck(1618)Johannes NicolausStupanus (1569)Theodor Zwinger(1559)Hans Rosenbusch(1868)Johann Reinhard Blum(1826)Robert Wilhelm Bunsen(1831)Karl Cäsar Ritter vonLeonhard (1803)Johann FriedrichBlumenbach (1775)Friedrich Stromeyer(1800)Leo Königsberger(1860)Johann FriedrichGmelin (1768)Philipp FriedrichGmelin (1742)Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1768)Burchard DavidMauchard (1742)Ernst Kummer(1831)Karl WeierstraßChristoph GudermannHeinrich Scherk(1823)Friedrich Bessel(1810)Carl Gauss(1799)Heinrich WilhelmBrandes (1800)Elias RudolphCamerarius, Sr. (1663)Elias RudolphCamerarius, Jr. (1691)Georg BalthasarMetzger (1646/1650)Gottfried Möbius(1640)Johann Jakob von Brunn(1615)Werner Rolfinck(1618)Johannes NicolausStupanus (1569)Theodor Zwinger(1559)Karl Eduard Franz Schmidt (1886)Gustav Mie(1899)George Yammine(2020)Robert F.H. Fischer(1996)Johannes Huber(1982)Karlheinz Tröndle(1970)Hans Marko(1953)Richard Feldkeller(1924)