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Alexander Kazhdan

1922 - 1997

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Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan (Russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Кажда́н; 3 September 1922 – 29 May 1997) was a Soviet and American Byzantinist. Among his publications was the three-volume Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, a comprehensive encyclopedic work containing over than 5,000 entries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Kazhdan is the 194th most popular historian (up from 234th in 2019), the 863rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,107th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 194 out of 561. Before him are Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Ernst Kantorowicz, Krste Misirkov, Henri Maspero, and Ibn Wahshiyya. After him are Aulus Cremutius Cordus, Paul Veyne, Roger Chartier, Slobodan Jovanović, Christian Gottlob Heyne, and H. A. R. Gibb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 167. Before him are Anatoli Papanov, Michael Ansara, Bea Arthur, Hussein Onn, Susanna Agnelli, and Maila Nurmi. After him are Alan Perlis, Khiuaz Dospanova, Howard Zinn, Mauro Bolognini, Elissa Aalto, and Gilberto Agustoni. Among people deceased in 1997, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 108. Before him are Félix Candela, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., Kang Song-san, David Doyle, Michael Hutchence, and Walter Gotell. After him are Shintaro Katsu, Uzi Narkiss, Anatoliy Banishevskiy, Jan P. Syse, Ho Feng-Shan, and Hans Robert Jauss.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 863 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksei Gubarev (1931), Gennadiy Aygi (1934), Vladimir Kokovtsov (1853), Oleg Tabakov (1935), Maxim Shostakovich (1938), and Volin (1882). After him are Semyon Kurkotkin (1917), Anatoly Solonitsyn (1934), Alexander Shelepin (1918), Lidia Ruslanova (1900), Viktor Ponedelnik (1937), and Aleksey Batalov (1928).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 5. Before him are George Ostrogorsky (1902), Lev Gumilyov (1912), Vasily Bartold (1869), and Vladimir Minorsky (1877). After him are Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), Alexander Vasiliev (1867), Jacob Theodor Klein (1685), Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Serhii Plokhy (1957), Léon Poliakov (1910), and Olena Apanovych (1919).

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