Alexander Kazhdan

Alexander Kazhdan
Kazhdan in 1992
Born	Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Кажда́н (1922-09-03)3 September 1922 Moscow, Soviet Russia
Died	29 May 1997(1997-05-29) (aged 74) Washington D.C., U.S.
Known for	Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
Children	David Kazhdan
Academic background
Education	Pedagogical Institute of Ufa Moscow State University (PhD)
Thesis	Agrarnye otnosheniya v Vizantii XIII-XIV vv. (1952)
Influences	Eugene Kosminsky
Academic work
Discipline	Byzantine studies
Institutions	Soviet Academy of Sciences Princeton University Harvard University Dumbarton Oaks

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.