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John H. Finley, Master of Eliot House, where Nock lived in quarters built especially for him at the time of its construction, described Nock as an extraordinary scholar and a warm...
...death of the 60-year-old scholar left a wide circle of friends and correspondents in Europe and America stunned. Nock was widely regarded as the leading authority on the history of religion...
...Nock, at 28, became the youngest full professor at Harvard in a half century upon his arrival from Cambridge University, England, in 1930. From the time of his appointment to the chair he held until his death, Nock's reputation as a scholar grew...
During his first eight years here, Nock published his classic studies "Conversions" (1933) and "St. Paul" (1938). Because of his encyclopedic memory and the extraordinary range of his reading, colleagues recall that Nock was consulted by experts far outside his field to verify facts, recommend reading, and locate sources...
...Mark DeWolfe Howe, a close friend of Nock's for many years, called him "one of the last eccentrics. He did many, many kind things that no one ever knew about...