George Victor Schick (? in
Chicago – December 31, 1964) was an American Lutheran biblical scholar and translator of Martin Luther.
His mother died when he was aged 2, and he was raised by his paternal grandparents. His grandfather was
Rector George Schick who taught at
Concordia Theological Seminary,
Fort Wayne, Indiana from 1856 to 1914. George V. Schick graduated from Fort Wayne in 1904, then
Johns Hopkins University in 1912. He joined the Fort Wayne faculty the year his grandfather retired, 1914.
Several of Schick's students did significant work.
William Foxwell Albright and
Jaroslav Pelikan studied under
Schick in St. Louis.
He was professor of the Old Testament and Hebrew at
Concordia Seminary in
Clayton, Missouri
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a suburb of
St. Louis till his death. After 1956 was engaged in translating Luther's ''Lectures on Genesis'' from Latin into English for the 55-volume American edition of ''Luther's Works''.
Works
* ''The stems dûm and damám in Hebrew'' (1913)
* ''First year Hebrew exercises'' Concordia (1950)
* Translator: Luther ''Lectures on Genesis'' vol.1-4, vol.5 uncompleted, of 8 vols planned. (1968)
References
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1964 deaths
American Lutherans
American translators
Year of birth missing
Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod people