Georg Hans Luck Ph.D.

Georg Luck Obituary

LUCK, P H .D. , Georg Hans On Sunday, February 17, 2013, on his birthday GEORG HANS LUCK, Ph.D.; retired Professor of Classics at John's Hopkins University; beloved husband of Harriet R. G. Luck of 56 years; devoted father of Annina Luck Wildermuth of Huntington, NY, Hans A. Luck of Bern, Switzerland, and Stephanie Luck Coic of Paris, France; grandfather of Leo William Coic and Claire Ann Corentine Coic.
A Memorial service will be held on Saturday, February 23, at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 811 Cathedral St., Baltimore, MD, 21201, beginning at 11 AM. In lieu of flowers, people are encouraged to make donations to Child Health Foundation (www.childhealthfoundation.org, 10630 Little Patuxent Pkwy, Century Plaza, Ste. 126, Columbia, MD, 21044, USA). Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.peacefulalternatives.com.

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Published by Baltimore Sun on Feb. 20, 2013.

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Geertje suhr potash

August 28, 2024

Geertje potash suhr
I have spent many years in the company of the wonderful georg luck and his brother raetus luck. I described those years in my novel Learning About Love.
Ich hab ihn geliebet und liebe ihn noch und breache mein koerper zusammen wie ein morsches verbrauchtes buch bei seiner verbrennung stiegen doch empor meiner gedichte flammen und meiner prosa fluch.
I will soon join you both.

Margaret Erskine

February 24, 2013

I was very privileged to have Dr. Georg Luck as my Ph.D. supervisor at Johns Hopkins. What a pleasure it was to study with him! Dr. Luck was the kindest professor and most learned scholar I have ever met. Not only did I learn all about Latin literature from him, but he taught me by example how to be a humane teacher. I have very happy memories of attending his graduate Latin seminars and discussing my dissertation with him during lunches at the Hopkins' Faculty Club. I shall never forget his kindness in including me, a Canadian, together with other foreign students in his family Thanksgiving dinners every November. After I left Hopkins, I always enjoyed corresponding with him, particularly at Christmas time.
My thoughts and prayers are with his wife Harriet and his children, Annina, Hans and Stephanie, at this difficult time. I hope that they will find comfort in knowing how greatly respected and loved Dr. Luck was by all his students at Hopkins. The world has lost a very brilliant Classical scholar and a most generous, humane gentleman. Dr. Luck was truly a "vir doctissimus humanissimusque". Requiescat in pace.

Adrianne Pierce

February 20, 2013

I spent many a long and stimulating lunch in Professor Luck's company as we discussed my dissertation. He will be missed!

Barbara and Wayne Bien

February 20, 2013

We feel privileged to have known Dr. Luck,
and saddened by his loss. Our prayers and
the light of many candles are with his family
as you grieve his passing and celebrate the
many lovely memories of his long life.

Benjamin Feldman

February 20, 2013

I took Dr. Luck's class, “The Occult in Antiquity” in summer 1978. We were obliged to submit a paper, but I asked his permission to give him a private lecture instead, which he accepted. In his office, we shared a bottle of Stone's Green Ginger Wine, and I read to him materials I had collected over the years on the Theophany of God. Dr. Luck paid me one of the supreme compliments of my life, inviting me to co-author a book with him. I declined, but the pleasure of that hour has never diminished for me. Moreover, I met my spouse of nearly 35 years in his class that summer.
The Sun's article today does not fully convey the depth of his scholarship and insight. Now, over three decades later, I still have every reading passage he gave us, all my notes from his class. The world is charged with spirit and magic, dark and brilliant; not just in antiquity but every day, every path, around every corner.
I have thought of Dr Luck many times over these years, and always remembered him as the best and wisest and kindest of men. A little magic goes out of the world with him, but then who knows what golden door he passes through?
It was an enduring honor to have been his student, and I hope his memory will be a blessing for his family always.

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