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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