Kiernan, V. G. 1913-2009
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Name (Latin)
Kiernan, V. G. 1913-2009
Name (Arabic)
كرنان، ڤكتور غوردون
Other forms of name
Kiernan, E. Victor Gordon, 1913-2009
Kiernan, Victor, 1913-2009
Kiernan, Victor Gordon
Kiernan, E. Victor Gordon
Kiernan, V. G. (Victor Gordon), 1913-
Kiernan, E. Victor Gordon, 1913-
Date of birth
1913
Date of death
2009
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1913
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MARC
Sources of Information
- Info. from 678 field, 2014-02-11(b. 1913)
- Poems from Iqbal, 2014:t.p. (V.G. Kiernan) p. 4 of cover (Kiernan attended Trinity College, Cambridge; researched modern diplomatic history; lived in Indian before Partition and taught at Aitchison College in Lahore; given a Personal Chair in Modern History at the University of Edinburgh)
- His British diplomacy in China, 1880 to 1939
- Poems by Faiz, 2000:t.p. (V.G. Kiernan) back cover (Emeritus Prof. at Uni. of Edinburgh)
- Guardian WWW site, Feb. 19, 2009(Victor Kiernan; b. Victor Gordon Kiernan, Sept. 4, 1913; d. Feb. 17, 2009; historian with a global vision of empires, Marxism, politics, and poetry)
Wikipedia description:
Edward Victor Gordon Kiernan (4 September 1913 – 17 February 2009) was a British historian and a member of the Communist Party Historians Group. Kiernan's work was prominent in the field of Marxist historiography in Britain, analyzing historical events from a Marxist point of view. Belonging to a group of prominent British Marxist historians active in the 20th century, Kiernan was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain from 1934 until 1959, when he left in protest over the party's response to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He was also involved in promoting Urdu poetry among Western audiences.
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