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Alexander Vasiliev

1867 - 1953

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Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev (‹See Tfd›Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Васи́льев; 4 October 1867 (N.S.) – 30 May 1953) was considered the foremost authority on Byzantine history and culture in the mid-20th century. His History of the Byzantine Empire (vol. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Vasiliev has received more than 3,635 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alexander Vasiliev is the 203rd most popular historian (up from 268th in 2019), the 995th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,230th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Historian.

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  • 53.83

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Alexander Vasiliev ranks 203 out of 561. Before him are Max Weinreich, Abu Mikhnaf, Linda Nochlin, Robert Conquest, Ibn Abd al-Hakam, and Pulakeshin II. After him are Philochorus, Karl Otfried Müller, Walter Laqueur, Tony Judt, Aulus Cremutius Cordus, and Constantine Lascaris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Alexander Vasiliev ranks 79. Before him are Gutzon Borglum, Patriarch Sergius of Moscow, Emil Krebs, Louise, Princess Royal, Anathon Aall, and Holger Pedersen. After him are Amy Beach, Dimitrios Gounaris, Hanns Hörbiger, Martin Kutta, Nilo Peçanha, and Hjalmar Johansen. Among people deceased in 1953, Alexander Vasiliev ranks 79. Before him are Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Jim Thorpe, Hilaire Belloc, Dámaso Berenguer, Holger Pedersen, and Joseph Jongen. After him are Lev Mekhlis, Ernst Reuter, Xu Beihong, Jan Czochralski, Titta Ruffo, and Nicolae Rădescu.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Vasiliev ranks 995 out of 3,761. Before him are Edison Denisov (1929), Alfred Clebsch (1833), Sergey Sobyanin (1958), Ivan Fedyuninsky (1900), Nikolai Zverev (1832), and Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911). After him are Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (1943), Oleg Yefremov (1927), Yury Yakovlev (1928), Vladimir Obruchev (1863), Yevgeny Khrunov (1933), and Leo Borchard (1899).

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Among HISTORIANS In Russia

Among historians born in Russia, Alexander Vasiliev ranks 5. Before him are Lev Gumilyov (1912), George Ostrogorsky (1902), Vasily Bartold (1869), and Vladimir Minorsky (1877). After him are Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841), Alexander Kazhdan (1922), Léon Poliakov (1910), Mikhail Pogodin (1800), Jacob Theodor Klein (1685), Mikhail Artamonov (1898), and Boris Rybakov (1908).

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