Georg Luck
Classical philologist (1926–2013) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Georg Hans Bhawani Luck (February 17, 1926 – February 17, 2013)[1] was a Swiss classicist known for his studies of magical beliefs and practices in the Classical world.[2][3] For over twenty years he was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.[2]
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Born | February 17, 1926 Bern, Switzerland |
Died | February 17, 2013 (2013-02-18) (aged 87) |
Occupation | Classical scholar |
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In a scholarly debate in the late 1980s concerning methodology in the classics, Luck was a leader on the side of traditional rigorous scholarly methods and against what he viewed as unfounded speculation based on multiculturalism.[4][5]