Georg Hans Luck Ph.D.

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.

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...

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

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...