Background
Lurier was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Lurier was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.
and Doctor of Philosophy (1955), in Medieval History, all at the University of Pennsylvania.
He was known for his translations of Greek poetry and Chronicle of the Morea. After matriculating at Clark University in 1941, he served as a Greek interpreter for the United States. Army during World World War II from 1943 to 1946, then received his Bachelor of Arts (1948), Master of Arts He first held an academic position at Princeton University, and then moved in 1956 to Pace University, where he spent the rest of his career in the Social Sciences Department. He retired in 1997. In the early 1970s, after tensions inflamed by a failed attempt to unionize the Pace faculty, Lurier collaborated with mathematician William J. Adams to develop the Lurier–Adams plan for faculty promotion and tenure decision-making at Pace.
Speculum praised his annotated translation of Chronicle of the Morea into English for its accuracy and for conveying "the flavor" of the Greek.
Lurier is among a group of medievalists arguing that the original of the Chronicle was written in medieval French. Lurier died in New York in 2000.