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“I'm glad to see another vote for Frances Young, who if not my Doktorvater is at least my Meistermutter.”
“My relationship with my own advisor was very harmonious, and on the acknowledgments page of my diss I thanked him with the old academic term "Doktorvater.”
“I still send things to Doktorvater on occasion, because I can trust him to be brutal.”
“With my Doktorvater, the norm was that students were allowed to call him by his first name upon completion or in my case, after 10 years!”
“And thank you, Professor Jenni, and especially my “Doktorvater,” Professor Reicke—you were always in the forefront of scholarly studies and have now graduated to the celestial courts, ahead of the rest of us as usual.”
“(h) The failure to get this tension right-by "right," I mean in line with what Scripture actually says of itself-is what makes Enns sound disturbingly like my Doktorvater on one point.”
“Doktorvater, Glen H. Stassen) at SBTS in Louisville, KY-even as the fundamentalists closed in on it.”
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dhuber Or, better yet, "doctoral father."
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http://www.dict.cc/german-english/Doktorvater.html Jun 11, 2012
dhuber From German, referring to a Ph.D. thesis supervisor. Doctor + Father. Jun 11, 2012