Yale historian Jaroslav Jan Pelikan (1923-2006) has died of lung cancer at the age of 82. Pelikan was one of the world's leading scholars of the history of Christianity and medieval intellectual history. Pelikan served on the faculty at Yale University from 1962 to 1996. His numerous awards include the Yale Graduate School's Wilbur Cross Medal, the Medieval Academy of America's Haskins Medal, and the John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences. He is a past president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, delivered the 12th annual Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, and twice delivered Gifford lectures. Pelikan's 1992-93 Gifford lectures were published as Christianity and Classical Culture, just one of the more than 30 books Pelikan published. Though, Pelikan is perhaps best known for his five volume The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine. A useful biography is the 1990 profile of Pelikan for Christianity Today by historian Mark Noll of Wheaton College. Associated Press Obituary