Horace Gray Lunt (September 12, 1918 – August 11, 2010) was a linguist in the field of

Slavic Studies Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was prim ...

. He was Professor Emeritus at the Slavic Language and Literature Department and the Ukrainian Institute at Harvard University. Born in Colorado Springs, Lunt attended Harvard College (BA 1941), the University of California (MA 1942), Charles University in Prague (1946–47), and Columbia University (PhD 1950). As a student of Roman Jakobson at Columbia, he joined the Harvard University faculty in 1949 together with his mentor. There he taught the course on

Old Church Slavonic Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic () was the first Slavic languages, Slavic literary language. Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine Empire, Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with Standard language, standardizing the lan ...

grammar for four decades, creating what has become the standard handbook on it, now in its seventh edition. He published numerous monographs, articles, essays, and reviews on all aspects of Slavic comparative and historical linguistics and philology. Lunt also wrote the first English grammar of

Macedonian Macedonian most often refers to someone or something from or related to Macedonia. Macedonian(s) may specifically refer to: People Modern * Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North M ...

in the early 1950s.''Horace G. Lunt and the beginning of Macedonian studies in the United States of America'' (Victor A. Friedman), p. 117. He has been criticized for espousing some

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myths prominent in

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.James F. Clarke (1988) ''The Pen and the Sword: Studies in Bulgarian History'', (ed.

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), Boulder: East European Monographs; New York: Columbia University Press.
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/ref> Lunt publicly admitted that he received financial aid from the Yugoslav Council for Science and Culture and the Macedonian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture for his work in the area. He died at the age of 91. He was survived by his wife, Sally Herman Lunt, daughters Catherine and Elizabeth, five grandchildren, and son-in-law David.

Selected works

* Lunt, H.G. (2001) ''Old Church Slavonic Grammar'', 7th ed. (Walter de Gruyter) ; first ed. 1955 (Mouton & Co.) * Lunt, H.G. (1952) ''

A Grammar of the Macedonian Literary Language ''A Grammar of the Macedonian Literary Language'' is the title of the first English-language grammar of Macedonian. The grammar was written by Horace Lunt, an American working in Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jug ...

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