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Rosa Luxemburg

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A student's years at university can be recorded as a simple academic path, while the same record shows her publicly tearing apart her own supervisor's work.
Who they are

Rosa Luxemburg, a student who came to Zürich from Poland in 1889 and studied political economy under Julius Wolf.

What they do

The record presents her doctorate as a normal academic milestone, but also notes she demonstrated her supervisor's professional incompetence point by point.

How it works

She enrolled at the university in 1889, studied under Wolf from 1892, and completed her doctorate under his supervision in 1897. One cited document says that when Wolf had hopelessly entangled himself, she would get up and demonstrate his professional incompetence point by point. Another says she graduated in 1898 as one of the first women. The record does not establish that Wolf directed her later political positions, nor any later institutional or funding link.

Why it matters

It shows how a formal academic relationship can coexist with public, point-by-point rejection of the supervisor's competence.

The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "Rosa Luxemburg arrived in Zürich from Poland in 1889 and enrolled at the university, where she studied political economy under Wolf from 1892 and completed her doctorate under his supervision in 1897 45 ." Cross-sourced to books.google.nl, econ.uzh.ch, rosaluxemburg.org, spartacus-educational.com — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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