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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 85,090 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alexander Kazhdan is the 234th most popular historian (up from 270th in 2019), the 1,107th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,242nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 85k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alexander Kazhdans by language

Over the past year Alexander Kazhdan has had the most page views in the with 10,496 views, followed by Russian (4,560), and Chinese (1,366). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (69.51%), Catalan (62.70%), and Egyptian Arabic (45.41%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 234 out of 561. Before him are Georges Lefebvre, Halil İnalcık, Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi, Reinhart Dozy, Gerald of Wales, and Maxime Rodinson. After him are Johannes Aventinus, Timothy Garton Ash, Gustave Lanson, Marc Ferro, Gustave Schlumberger, and Lucius Coelius Antipater.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 194. Before him are Patrick Magee, Michael Ansara, William Baumol, Adil Çarçani, Carlo Lizzani, and Eugene Stoner. After him are Gilberto Agustoni, Vsevolod Bobrov, Stanley Schachter, George McGovern, Władysław Bartoszewski, and Albert Lamorisse. Among people deceased in 1997, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 131. Before him are Adil Çarçani, Cheddi Jagan, Juzo Itami, Josef Posipal, Eugene Stoner, and Lam Ching-ying. After him are Stanley Schachter, Andrei Sinyavsky, Antoine Cuissard, Hans Bauer, Giorgio Strehler, and Jan P. Syse.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 1,107 out of 3,761. Before him are Fyodor Raskolnikov (1892), Savely Kramarov (1934), Yusuf Akçura (1876), Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1845), Rudolf Barshai (1924), and Vladimir Kappel (1883). After him are Gamzat-bek (1789), Alexei Starobinsky (1948), Grigory Shelikhov (1747), Oleg Kalugin (1934), Viktor Sukhorukov (1951), and Vladimir Atlasov (1661).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Alexander Kazhdan ranks 7. Before him are Lev Gumilyov (1912), George Ostrogorsky (1902), Vasily Bartold (1869), Vladimir Minorsky (1877), Alexander Vasiliev (1867), and Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841). After him are Léon Poliakov (1910), Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Jacob Theodor Klein (1685), Mikhail Artamonov (1898), Boris Rybakov (1908), and Cyril Toumanoff (1913).

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