The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Johann Pfaff

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## Johann Friedrich Pfaff

Biography

Dr. phil. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1786
Dissertation: Commentatio de ortibus et occasibus siderum apud auctores classicos commemoratis

Advisor 1: Abraham Gotthelf Kästner
Advisor 2: Johann Elert Bode

Students:
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Name | School | Year | Descendants
--- | --- | --- | ---
Johann Bartels | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena | 1799 | 8329
Carl Gauß | Universität Helmstedt | 1799 | 50610
August Möbius | Universität Leipzig | 1815 | 3312
Karl Mollweide | Universität Helmstedt | 1796 | 91

According to our current on-line database, Johann Pfaff has 4 students and 57270 descendants.
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