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Two share $1 million humanities prize
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Published November 30, 2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. --
An 80-year-old American historian, Jaroslav Pelikan, and a 91-year-old French philosopher, Paul Ricoeur, will share the $1million Kluge Prize, created last year to honor achievement in fields not covered by Nobel prizes.
Pelikan, who lives in New Haven, Conn., has specialized in the story of Christianity from its beginnings to the present. He has written more than 30 books, using sources in nine languages and dealing with literary and musical as well as doctrinal aspects of religion. He is a former president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ricoeur has taught at Haverford College, Columbia and Yale Universities, the University of Chicago and Louvain University in Belgium, as well as at the Sorbonne and other French institutions.
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