David Marshall Lang

David Marshall Lang ( May 6, 1924 - March 20, 1991 ) was a British historian. He headed the Caucasian Studies Department at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies .

Long studied at St. John's College of Cambridge University , where he became a Fellow later. During the Second World War he was stationed as an officer in Iran and was Vice Consul in Tabriz , where he came into contact with the Armenian population (he visited Armenia several times in the 1960s and 1970s ). After the war he became a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies (initially for the Georgian language) and in 1964 a professor.

He was visiting professor at Columbia University (1953), in Cambridge and at the University of California, Los Angeles (1965). In 1962 and 1964 he was Honorary Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society .

Lang studied the history of Georgia , Armenia and Bulgaria and has published several books on it.

Fonts (selection)

• The Last Years of the Georgian Monarchy, 1658-1832 , Columbia University Press, 1957
• First Russian Radical, Alexander Radischev , 1749-1802 , London: George Allen & Unwin, 1959
• A Modern History of Georgia , London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962
• The Georgians . ( Ancient Peoples and Places ) New York: Praeger, 1966
• Armenia: Cradle of Civilization , London: George Allen & Unwin, 1970
• with Charles Allen Burney Peoples of the Hills: Ancient Ararat and Caucasus , London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971
  • German translation: The mountain peoples of the Middle East. Armenia and the Caucasus from prehistoric times to the Mongol storm. Kindler's cultural history 1973
• Bulgarians. From Pagan Times to the Ottoman Conquest , London: Thames and Hudson, 1976
• Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints , New York: Crestwood, 1976
• The Armenians. A People in Exile , London: Allen and Unwin, 1981
• Armenia and Karabagh: the Struggle for Unity , London: Minority Rights Group, 1991

literature

• George Hewitt, Guardian obituary , April 6, 1991