George V. Schick

Who is George V. Schick?

George Victor Schick 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.

He was professor of the Old Testament and Hebrew at Concordia Seminary in Clayton, Missouri 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.