Background
His mother died when he was aged 2, and he was raised by his paternal grandparents.
His mother died when he was aged 2, and he was raised by his paternal grandparents.
George V. Schick graduated from Fort Wayne in 1904, then Johns Hopkins University in 1912.
In Chicago – December 31, 1964) was an American Lutheran biblical scholar and translator of Martin Luther. Several of Schick"s students did significant work. William Foxwell Albright and Jaroslav Pelikan studied under Schick in Saint Louis.
He was professor of the Old Testament and Hebrew at Concordia Seminary in Clayton, Missouri a suburb of Saint 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"son