Alexander Kazhdan

Alexander Kazhdan
Alexander Kazhdan
	Kazhdan in 1992
Born	Александр Петрович Каждан; 3 September 1922; Moscow, Russian SFSR
Died	29 May 1997 (aged 74); Washington D.C., U.S.
Known for	Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
Children	David Kazhdan
Academic background
Education	Moscow State University; Bashkir Pedagogical Institute; Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (PhD)
Thesis	Аграрные отношения в Византии в XIII–XIV веках (1946)
Doctoral advisor	Eugene Kosminsky
Academic work
Discipline	Byzantine studies
Institutions	Ivanovo Pedagogical Institute (1947–49); Tula Pedagogical Institute (1949–52); Velikiye Luki Pedagogical Institute (1952–56); Soviet Academy of Sciences (1956–78); Harvard University Dumbarton Oaks (1979–97); ;

Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan (Russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Кажда́н, romanized: Aleksándr Petróvich Kazhdán, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr pʲɪˈtrovʲɪt͡ɕ kɐʐˈdan]; 3 September 1922 – 29 May 1997) was a Soviet and American Byzantinist. Among his publications was the three-volume Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, a comprehensive encyclopedic work containing over than 5,000 entries.