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Alexander Vasiliev

1867 - 1953

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Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Васи́льев; 4 October 1867 (N.S.) – 30 May 1953) was a Russian historian. He was considered the foremost authority on Byzantine history and culture in the mid-20th century. His History of the Byzantine Empire (vol. 1–2, 1928) remains one of a few comprehensive accounts of the entire Byzantine history, on the par with those authored by Edward Gibbon and Fyodor Uspensky. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Vasiliev is the 242nd most popular historian (down from 203rd in 2019), the 1,021st most popular biography from Russia (down from 995th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Alexander Vasiliev ranks 242 out of 561. Before him are Abu Mikhnaf, Tony Judt, Edward Luttwak, Francisco López de Gómara, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, and Ibn Hayyan. After him are Bernard Desclot, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Muhammad Aufi, Rudolph Rummel, and Natalie Zemon Davis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Alexander Vasiliev ranks 87. Before him are Gutzon Borglum, Léon Delacroix, Dimitrios Gounaris, Ali Kemal, Hjalmar Johansen, and Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein. After him are Hanns Hörbiger, Aleksandar Malinov, Charles Dillon Perrine, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Giuseppe Morello, and Maximilian Bircher-Benner. Among people deceased in 1953, Alexander Vasiliev ranks 85. Before him are Vladimir Dekanozov, Jorge Negrete, Joseph Jongen, Şükrü Saracoğlu, Hilaire Belloc, and Lev Mekhlis. After him are Josef Fischer, Hans Aanrud, Albert Austin, Friedrich Wolf, Uroš Predić, and Sophia Hayden.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Vasiliev ranks 1,021 out of 3,761. Before him are Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia (1850), Dmitry Pisarev (1840), Boris Barnet (1902), Fyodor Sergeyev (1883), Eleanor of Prussia (1583), and Anna Sophia of Prussia (1527). After him are Boris Pilnyak (1894), Natalya Estemirova (1958), Stepan Petrichenko (1892), Semyon Krivoshein (1899), Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov (1874), and Aleksei Chirikov (1703).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Alexander Vasiliev ranks 7. Before him are George Ostrogorsky (1902), Lev Gumilyov (1912), Vasily Bartold (1869), Vladimir Minorsky (1877), Alexander Kazhdan (1922), and Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841). After him are Jacob Theodor Klein (1685), Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Serhii Plokhy (1957), Léon Poliakov (1910), Olena Apanovych (1919), and Boris Rybakov (1908).

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