Talk:Jaroslav Pelikan

Untitled

• Was he Czech? Russian? Why he has Czech-like name&lastname? --Sheynhertz_געשׁ״ך 08:08, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

He was of Slovakian descent (Slovakian Lutheran). 12.10.124.189 (talk) 08:19, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Field and Stream contest

I was delighted to find that someone (can't figure out just who, from the editing history) had included the story of this contest and his winning entry here. I was a 2nd year Latin student at the time and every month, like my parents, read Ed Zern's column -- which appeared on the last page of the magazine. Had tried my hand at creating an entry for the contest but gave up, unhappy with my efforts...when Pelikan's winner was published, with its nifty double triple alliteration, I was pleasantly shocked that someone with such linguistic and poetic talent had stumbled onto Zern's challenge.

I don't know if anyone will be able to find a copy of that issue of the magazine in order to enable an exact reference to the month and year in which the winning entry was published. But I can vouch here that the story has been retold accurately, and the Latin version of the motto reproduced faithfully; I've never forgotten it. Publius3 (talk) 09:18, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

His mother was Slovak, Not Serbian

I changed the text that read that his mother was Serbian. She wasn't; she was an ethnic Slovak who came from the area of Šid in Serbia. I have this on the best authority: she herself told me. She was my grandmother, and JJ Pelikan Jr. was my uncle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexlange (talk • contribs) 23:00, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Academic Career Incomplete

Between 1946 and 1962, this article does not cover Pelikan's teaching work at Valparaiso, Concordia Seminary, and University of Chicago. I think that a balanced, neutral POV treatment of Pelikan's career should say more about this period, even if he is less noted today for this part of his academic career. See Pelikan's "A Personal Memoir: Fragments of a Scholar's Autobiography", available at: http://www.onbeing.org/program/need-creeds/feature/personal-memoir-fragments-scholars-autobiography/1292 71.175.136.103 (talk) 18:13, 7 July 2012 (UTC)