German Fedorov-Davydov
German Alexeyevich Fedorov-Davydov (Russian: Герман Алексеевич Федоров-Давыдов) (17 July 1931 – 13 April 2000) was a Russian and Soviet historian, archaeologist, numismatist and art historian, professor of Moscow State University.
German Fedorov-Davydov was born in a family of highly educated, impoverished nobility, with old tradition of science; one of his ancestors, Davydov, was a 19th-century rector of the
German Fedorov-Davydov graduated from the Moscow State University Historical division in 1954 majoring in archeology. In 1969 he became a professor in the Archeology Institute of the USSR Academy of Science, his post-graduate and doctoral monographs were "Altyn Orda coin hoards" (1957), and "East European Nomads from 10th to 14th centuries" (1966).
German Fedorov-Davydov was a field archeologist. From 1950 he constantly participated in archeological expeditions: to
German Fedorov-Davydov is an author of about 230 scientific and popular-scientific works, including 26 books. His monographs "East European Nomads under rule of Altyn Orda Khans" (1966), "Social order of Golden Horde" (1973), "Art of nomads and Golden Horde" (1976) became classical for the period of Early Middle Age world of the Euroasian steppes. His books were published in England, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, among them are "City Culture of the Golden Horde" (Oxford, 1984), "Städte der Golden Horde an der unteren Wolga" (Munich, 1984), "Le tresor de Saransk Les Monnaies de la Russie Moskovit 14 et 15 ieme Siecle" (Belgium, 1985), "Le tresor de Saransk Les Monnaies de la Principaute de Nijegorod. 14-15 Siecles" (Belgium, 1992). The work "Coins tell" ("World", 1986, republished again in 1990) was even published in Marathi and Telugu Indian languages.
German Fedorov-Davydov was a member of Academy of Natural Sciences of the Russian Federation, and corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.
References
- Eulogy Archived 2012-02-08 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)