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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-American Byzantinist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Kazhdan has received more than 85,941 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Alexander Kazhdan is the 270th most popular historian (down from 238th in 2019), the 1,246th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,157th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 270 out of 339Before him are Walter Burkert, Émile Mâle, Bobojon Ghafurov, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Alexander Vasiliev, and George Cœdès. After him are Vardan Areveltsi, Ubbo Emmius, Emmanuel Todd, Natalie Zemon Davis, Edward Granville Browne, and Léon Poliakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 225Before him are Võ Văn Kiệt, Bob Martin, Farrokhroo Parsa, Blaga Dimitrova, Esther Lederberg, and Bhimsen Joshi. After him are Vladimir Etush, Richard Kiley, Ester Mägi, Daniel Boulanger, Hal Moore, and Eusebio Tejera. Among people deceased in 1997, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 142Before him are Brian Connolly, Ziya Bunyadov, Heikki A. Alikoski, Aurelio González, Georges Marchal, and Agnieszka Osiecka. After him are Sándor Végh, Misael Pastrana Borrero, Robert H. Dicke, René Huyghe, Seni Pramoj, and Salvador Artigas.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 1,246 out of 3,262Before him are Fyodor Alekseyev (1753), Yevgeniy Chazov (1929), Elena Belova (1947), Nikolai Valuev (1973), Ivan Sidorenko (1919), and Viktor Afanasyev (1948). After him are Oleg Basilashvili (1934), Margarita Terekhova (1942), Yuri Lyubimov (1917), Vladimir Etush (1922), Apollinary Vasnetsov (1856), and Nur Devlet (null).

Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 7Before him are George Ostrogorsky (1902), Lev Gumilyov (1912), Vasily Bartold (1869), Vladimir Minorsky (1877), Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), and Alexander Vasiliev (1867). After him are Léon Poliakov (1910), Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Cyril Toumanoff (1913), Boris Rybakov (1908), Mikhail Artamonov (1898), and Aron Gurevich (1924).