Horace Gray Lunt, 1918-2010

[Michelle Viise]

On behalf of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and  
the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University, we regret to  
announce that 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.

A student of Roman Jakobson at Columbia, he joined his mentor in the  
move to Harvard University 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 on  
Old Church Slavonic, creating in the process his classic Old Church  
Slavonic Grammar, now in its seventh edition. His prodigious  
bibliography of published works includes 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 language in English.

He is survived by his wife, Dr. Sally Herman Lunt, daughters  
Catherine and Elizabeth, five grandchildren, and son-in-law David.




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