Bernhard Pick

Background

Pick, Bernhard was born on December 19, 1842 in Kempen, Prussia. Son of Anselm and Fannie Pick.

Education

Educated at Breslau and Berlin. Graduate Union Theological Seminary, 1868. Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1877.

Doctor of Divinity, Pennsylvania College, 1893.

Career

Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1868. Pastor New York, 1868-1869, North. Buffalo, New York, 1869-1870, Syracuse, 1870-1874, Rochester, 1874-1881. Pastor Lutheran churches, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1881-1895, Albany, New York, 1895-1903.

Occasional supply, New York, 1903-1905.

Pastor Newark, New Jersey, since 1905. Author: Luther as a Hymnist, 1875.

Jewish Life in the Time of Jesus (in German), 1880. Index to Lange’s Commentary on the Old Testament, 1882.

Life of Jesus According to Extra-Cannonical Sources, 1887.

The Jews Since the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1887. The Talmud, 1890; General Index to the Ante-Nicene Fathers, 1887. Historical Sketch of the Jews Since Their Return from Babylon, 1892.

Vade Mecum Homileticum, volunteer 1—The Old Testament, 1899.

The Extra Canonical Life of Christ, 1903. Hymns and Poetry of the Eastern Church, 1908.

Remains of Gospels and Sayings of Christ, 1908. Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew, and Thomas, 1909.

Translations of the Bible, 1913.

The Cabala, 1913. Jesus in the Talmud, 1913. Editor: Luther’s Eine Feste Burg, in 21 languages, 1883.

Luther’s Hymn of the Reformation, in English, 1892.

Lyra Gerhardti, 1906. The Devotional Songs of Novalis (German and English), 1910. Translator: Jewish Artisan Life in the Time of Christ (from the German of Professor Delitzsch), 1883.

Essence of Christianity (from German of Professor Cremer), 1903.

Also 12 volumes comprising the Foreign Religions Series, 1908.

Achievements

• Bernhard Pick has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Kate Spindler, June 16, 1868.

Father:

Anselm Pick

Mother:

Fannie Pick

Spouse:

Kate Spindler