Bernhard Pick

Bernhard Pick (Kempen 19 December 1842 – 1917) was a German-American Lutheran pastor and scholar.

He studied at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and after became a pastor.

As a scholar he contributed many articles to the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge and McClintock and James Strong's Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature.

Pick's interest in hymnology led to Luther as a Hymnist Philadelphia, 1875 and an edition of Luther's "Ein feste Burg" in 19 Languages 1880; enlarged in 21 languages, Chicago, 1883.

Many of Pick's works are now being reissued with 21st-century publication dates: He also translated Franz Delitzsch Jewish Artisan Life in the Time of Jesus 1883