Grand-disciple or academic grandson (or granddaughter) () 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., jenapolis.deReinhard Zimmermann, Roman law, contemporary law, European law, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 31
The term implies that knowledge, techniques and/or skills are transferred from the "grandfather" to the "grand-disciple," borrowing from kinship terminology.Ljapunow, Enkelschüler Liszts Glockenläuten, Heldensagen. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 April 2011, No. 90, p. 29, fazarchiv.deFingerfertiger Dogmatiker. Harnacks Enkelschüler: Zum Tode des amerikanischen Kirchenhistorikers Jaroslav Pelikan. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 May 2006, No. 115, p. 37, faz-archiv.de 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.Silvan S. Schweber, S. S Schweber, Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe, pp. 104–105
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