Alexander Kazhdan

Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan ( Russian Александр Петрович Каждан Alexander Petrovich Kashdan ; born September 3, 1922 in Moscow , † May 29, 1997 in Washington, DC ) was a Russian-American Byzantinist . The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium , published by him and first published in 1991, developed into the standard work of Byzantine studies.

Kashdan came from a Moscow merchant family. He graduated from a pedagogical college in the city of Ufa and from 1956 worked in the Institute of History of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . There he was, among other things, the author of several translations of ancient and medieval works as well as scientific publications on Byzantine history.

In 1978, Kashdan and his family first emigrated to Israel and then to the USA . There he worked as a scientist at the Byzantine research institute Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC until his death . In the Soviet Union, after Kashdan's emigration, his previous publications were largely withdrawn from circulation.

He is the father of mathematician David Kazhdan .

literature

• Anthony Cutler, Simon Franklin (Eds.): Homo Byzantinus. Papers in Honor of Alexander Kazhdan (= Dumbarton Oaks Papers. Vol. 46). Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC 1992, ISBN 0-88402-198-X ;
  • Pp. 1-4: Anthony Cutler: Some talk of Alexander. JSTOR 1291634 ;
  • Pp. 5–26: Simon Franklin: Bibliography of works by Alexander Kazhdan. JSTOR 1291635 .
• Angeliki E. Laiou, Alice-Mary Talbot: Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan. 1922-1997. In: Dumbarton Oaks Papers. Vol. 51, 1997, pp. Xii-xvii, JSTOR 1291758 .

Web links

• Kazhdan, Alexander P.  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Literature by and about Alexander Kazhdan in the catalog of the German National Library