Jaroslav pelikan biography of christopher

OBITUARY NOTICE—

See index for CA sketch: Born December 17, 1923, in Akron, OH; died of lung cancer, May 13, 2006, in Hamden, CT.

Historian, minister, educator, and author. Pelikan was a prominent scholar of the history of Christianity and a former Yale University professor. The son of immigrants from what are now Slovakia and Serbia, he had a father who was a Lutheran bishop.

Pelikan grew up in an intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, learning to speak three languages as a boy and eventually becoming fluent in ten. He was also a talented pianist who considered pursuing music as a career; however, he opted instead to study at Concordia Theological Seminary and the University of Chicago, receiving a B.D.

from the former and a Ph.D.

Jaroslav pelikan biography of christopher

from the latter, both in 1946. Ordained in the Lutheran Church, he taught at Valparaiso University in the late 1940s, then at Concordia for four years and the University of Chicago from 1953 to 1962. Pelikan settled i