In Memoriam: Jaroslav Pelikan (1923-2006)

Yale professor Jaroslav Pelikan, one of the world's foremost scholars of the history of Christianity, has died of lung cancer, his son said Monday. He was 82 years old. Mr. Pelikan wrote more than 30 books, using sources in nine languages and dealing with literacy and muscial as well as doctrinal aspects of religion. "For a man as talented and accomplished as he was, he was also exceptionally kind and genuinely humble," said his son Michael. From: Associated Press.