Georg Luck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georg Luck

Swiss-American classical philologist

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1926

Place of Birth: Bern, canton of Bern, Switzerland

Date of Death: 17-Feb-2013

Profession: university teacher, classical scholar, classical philologist

Nationality: United States, Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Georg Hans Bhawani Luck (February 17, 1926 – February 17, 2013) was a Swiss classicist known for his studies of magical beliefs and practices in the Classical world.
For over twenty years he was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.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.