# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-kazhdan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:42:10.754Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-kazhdan"
name: "Alexander Kazhdan"
slug: "alexander-kazhdan"
description: "Alexander Petrovich Kazhdan was a Soviet and American Byzantinist. Among his publications was the three-volume Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, a comprehensive encyclopedic work containing more than 5,000 entries."
tagline: "Soviet historian and Byzantine Empire specialist (1922-1997)"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1922-09-03"
deathDate: "1997-05-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump