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David Marshall Lang

1924 - 1991

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David Marshall Lang (6 May 1924 – 20 March 1991), was a Professor of Caucasian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was one of the most productive British scholars who specialized in Georgian, Armenian and ancient Bulgarian history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Marshall Lang is the 457th most popular historian (down from 451st in 2019), the 4,155th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,828th in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, David Marshall Lang ranks 457 out of 561Before him are Américo Castro, Girolamo Mei, Hermann Oldenberg, Alain Besançon, Helene Ahrweiler, and Lawrence Stone. After him are Michael Aris, Charles Homer Haskins, Mary Beard, Aron Gurevich, Anvar Chingizoglu, and Eadmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, David Marshall Lang ranks 384Before him are Masha Bruskina, Peter Scholl-Latour, Rossana Rossanda, Alberto Uria, Roy Bentley, and César Ruminski. After him are Maino Neri, Giacomo Mari, F. Sionil José, Aron Gurevich, Mohamed Benhima, and Göran Malmqvist. Among people deceased in 1991, David Marshall Lang ranks 204Before him are John King Fairbank, Edwin H. Land, Nikola Radović, Adãozinho, Gustav Schäfer, and Fiorenzo Marini. After him are Giacomo Mari, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Márcio Melo, Bruno Venturini, Mildred Dunnock, and Robin Hill.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Marshall Lang ranks 4,156 out of 8,785Before him are Robert Kerr (1882), Thomas Dekker (1572), William Rutter Dawes (1799), Jeanette Winterson (1959), Cædmon (657), and Roy Bentley (1924). After him are Edward Newton (1832), Eanflæd (626), Nathalie Emmanuel (1989), Charles Henry Bartlett (1885), Peter Murphy (1957), and Philippa York (1958).

Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, David Marshall Lang ranks 47Before him are Henry James Sumner Maine (1822), G. M. Trevelyan (1876), Arthur Smith Woodward (1864), Donald Nicol (1923), Martin Gilbert (1936), and Lawrence Stone (1919). After him are Mary Beard (1955), Stanley Morison (1889), Richard J. Evans (1947), David Abulafia (1949), Niall Ferguson (1964), and Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931).