Dear Davis Center affiliates,

We are sad to inform you of the death of Horace Gray Lunt, a longtime faculty associate of the Davis Center.  We are passing along a few words from William Todd, Acting Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

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Michael Flier, writing from Moscow, has sent me the sad news that our colleague Horace Gray Lunt, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Emeritus, passed away on August 11, 2010, in Baltimore, Maryland.  He was 91 years old. 

Born 12 September 1918 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, he received his B.A. from Harvard College.  A student of Roman Jakobson at Columbia,  he joined his mentor in the move to Harvard in 1949, where he began an illustrious forty-year career as a  member of the Slavic Department faculty.  He trained generations of Harvard students in his signature course, Old Church Slavonic, creating in the process his classic Old Church Slavonic Grammar,  now in its seventh edition. His prodigious bibliography of published works included numerous monographs, articles, essays, and reviews on all aspects of Slavic comparative and historical linguistics and philology. He authored the first modern grammar of the Macedonian in English.

He is survived by his wife, Dr. Sally Herman Lunt, daughters Catherine and Elizabeth, and five grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are pending.  A more comprehensive obituary will follow.

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