There will be a memorial service on Tuesday, Oct. 10, honoring the life and work of Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History and one of the world's foremost scholars of the history of Christianity.
The service will take place at noon in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets. President Richard C. Levin will be among the featured speakers, along with a distinguished group of clerics, scholars and musicians from around the country. A reception will follow at Pierson College.
A member of the Yale faculty for over 40 years, Pelikan was dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences 1973-1978. He was the author of more than 30 books, including his epic five-volume "The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of the Doctrine." He was the recipient of numerous honors. In 1983, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him to deliver the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor the federal government confers for achievement in the humanities. He twice delivered the Guifford Lectures in Scotland, considered one of the foremost lecture series dealing with religion, science and philosophy. In 2004, the Library of Congress chose him for a Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences, sometimes described as a Nobel Prize for the humanities.
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