Jaroslav pelikan biography examples
Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Jr was an American scholar of the history of Christianity, Christian theology, and medieval intellectual history at Yale University..
Pelikan, a member the Yale faculty since , was Sterling Professor Emeritus of History.
Jaroslav Pelikan
Pelikan gave the –93 Gifford lecturesat the University of Aberdeen, which yielded the book Christianity and Classical Culture. He was the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University where he served on the faculty from to , and was the president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciencesfrom to
Born in Akron, Ohio, as the son of a Slovak Lutheran pastor and a Serbian mother, Pelikan joined the Orthodox Church in America on March 25,
In , having received the John W.
Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences, Pelikan donated his award to Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, of which he was a trustee.
On May 13, , Jaroslav Pelikan reposed, after a long battle with lung ca