Harold E. Lurier

Harold Edmond Lurier (September 28, 1923 – June 30, 2000) was an American historian, academic and translator.

After matriculating at Clark University in 1941, he served as a Greek interpreter for the U.S. Army during World War II from 1943 to 1946, then received his B.A.

[2][3][4][self-published source] Lurier won Pace's Kenan Award for Teaching Excellence in 1962.

[6] Speculum praised his annotated translation of Chronicle of the Morea into English for its accuracy and for conveying "the flavor" of the Greek.

[7] Lurier is among a group of medievalists arguing that the original of the Chronicle was written in medieval French.