Alexander Kazhdan | |
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![]() Kazhdan in 1992 | |
Born | Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Кажда́н 3 September 1922 |
Died | 29 May 1997 Washington D.C., U.S. | (aged 74)
Education | Pedagogical Institute of Ufa Moscow State University (PhD) |
Known for | Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium |
Children | David Kazhdan |
Academic career | |
Discipline | Byzantine studies |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Agrarnye otnosheniya v Vizantii XIII-XIV vv. (1952) |
Influences | Eugene Kosminsky |
Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan (Russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Кажда́н; 3 September 1922 – 29 May 1997) was a Soviet-American Byzantinist. Among his publications was the three-volume Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, a comprehensive encyclopedic work containing over than 5,000 entries.
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