Rauff's Mathematical Genealogy

(Each scholar is listed immediately below his thesis advisor)

Name                                         City and Date of Degree Awarded

Erhard Weigel                            (Leipzig, 1650)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz          (Altdorf, 1666)

Christian M. von Wolff *               (Leipzig,  1704)

Martin Knutzen                          (Königsberg, 1732)

Immanuel Kant                           (Königsberg, 1770)

Karl Reinhold                              (Jena,  1787)

Friedrich A. Trendelenburg         (Berlin, 1826)

Franz Brentano                          (Tubingen, 1862)

Kazimierz Twardowski                (Vienna, 1891)

Stanislaw Lesniewski                 (Lwow, 1912)

Alfred Tarski                               (Warsaw, 1924)

James Donald Monk                  (Berkeley, 1961)

Robert H. LaGrange                    (Boulder, 1966)

James V. Rauff                            (Laramie, 1971)

*Christian M. von Wolff had a second advisor ---- Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus

We can trace Tschirnhaus' mathematical ancestors back to Johann Reuchlin who wrote his thesis under the direction of Andronicus Contoblacas at Universität Basel / Université de Poitiers in 1477.