'''Grand-disciple''' or '''academic grandson''' (or '''granddaughter''') ({{langx|de|Enkelschüler}}) are terms sometimes used in academic contexts or contexts relating to fine arts, and denote someone whose mentor or teacher was himself (or herself) a student of a famous representative of that discipline, such as a famous composer or a Nobel Prize-winning scientist.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130211080053/http://www.jenapolis.de/2011/10/sequeira-costa-spielt-als-letzter-beruhmter-enkelschuler-liszts-im-festsaal-furstenhaus/ ''Sequeira Costa spielt als letzter berühmter Enkelschüler Liszts im Festsaal Fürstenhaus''], jenapolis.de</ref><ref>Reinhard Zimmermann, ''Roman law, contemporary law, European law'', Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 31</ref>
The term implies that knowledge, techniques and/or skills are transferred from the "grandfather" to the "grand-disciple," borrowing from kinship terminology.<ref>[http://www.seiten.faz-archiv.de/FAZ/20110416/fd1201104163076676.html ''Ljapunow, Enkelschüler Liszts Glockenläuten, Heldensagen''. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 April 2011, No. 90, p. 29]{{Dead link|date=March 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}, fazarchiv.de</ref><ref>[http://www.seiten.faz-archiv.de/faz/20060518/fd120060518675481.html ''Fingerfertiger Dogmatiker. Harnacks Enkelschüler: Zum Tode des amerikanischen Kirchenhistorikers Jaroslav Pelikan''. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 May 2006, No. 115, p. 37]{{Dead link|date=March 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}, faz-archiv.de</ref> The term ''Enkelschüler'' is fairly common in German, but similar terms are also used in English to some extent. In German a doctoral advisor is also usually referred to as a ''Doktorvater'', a "doctoral father," similarly modelled on kinship terminology.<ref>Silvan S. Schweber, S. S Schweber, ''Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe'', pp. 104–105</ref> == References == <references />
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