Basic Biographical Information
German A. Fedorov-Davydov was born on July 17, 1931 and died on April 23, 2000. He was a doctor of historical sciences, a professor, a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (1983), a member of Academy of Natural Sciences (1993), and the winner of the Lomonosov Award of the first degree of Moscow State University (1998).
His father was a professor at Moscow State University and a famous Soviet art historian. His mother was an artist.
After leaving school in 1949, he joined the history department of Moscow State University, where he majored in the department of archaeology. As a student, he participated in the Khorezm expedition and wrote a thesis on “The Mint minted Khorezm in XIII-XIV centuries” (head – Professor S.P. Tolstov).
From 1954 to 1956, he was a postgraduate of Moscow State University Department of Archaeology (supervisor – known Soviet archeologist A.P. Smirnov). In 1957 he defended his thesis on “The Treasures of Coin the...
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Further Reading
Fedorov-Davydov, G.A. 1966. East European nomads under rule of Altyn Orda Khans. Moscow: Nauka (in Russian).
- 1972. Die Goldene Horde und ihre Vorgänger. Leipzig: Koehler und Amelang.
- 1976. Art of nomads and golden horde. Moscow: Iskusstvo.
- 1983. Az Aranyhorda foldgen [The gloden horde]. Budapest: Zinat Press (in Hungarian).
- 1984. The culture of the golden horde cities. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- 1984. Städte der Goldenen Horde an der unteren Wolga. München: Beck.
- 1987. Statistical methods in archaeology. Moscow: Nauka.
Fedorov, G.A. & M.D. Poluboyarinova. 1976. Die Städte der Goldenen Horde. Das Altertum 3(22): 171-8.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this entry
Cite this entry
Poluboyarinova, M.D. (2014). Fedorov-Davydov, German A.. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_397
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_397
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-1-4419-0426-3
Online ISBN: 978-1-4419-0465-2
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law