Grand-disciple or academic grandson (or granddaughter) (german: Enkelschüler) are terms sometimes used in academic contexts or contexts relating to

fine arts In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork ...

, and denote someone whose mentor or

teacher A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. ''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. whe ...

was himself (or herself) a student of a famous representative of that discipline, such as a famous composer or a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. The term implies that knowledge, techniques and/or skills are transferred from the "grandfather" to the "grand-disciple," borrowing from

kinship terminology Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship. Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology ...

. 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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