Leonard Fick

Leonard J . Fick

About

Born

1915

Died

1990

Work

Position

American Roman Catholic priest · Author · Priest · Chairman · President

As late as 2007, one former Fick student reported that next to his bedside table was " Gösta Berling's Saga " by Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman and the first Sweden to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1909....

Education

Academic degree

American academic · Professor

Studied at

Ohio State University · Pontifical College Josephinum · University of California, Berkeley

Area of science

Vocational education · Leadership · Classics

Specialty

Leader

Leonard J. Fick " Leonard J. Fick " ( September 6, 1915 ndash February 4, 1990 ) was an American Roman Catholic priest, scholar and educator, college president, author in Ohio whose educational career spanned for over fifty years Fick devoted more than sixty years to the Pontifical College Josephinum and is considered by many to be its most prominent 20th century graduate, scholar, administrator and leader having occupied more positions of responsibility and leadership than anyone else during that time....

Skills & Activities

Activity

Religious writer

Master status

Student

Skill

Access

Preference

Catholic · Christianity

Father Fick, as he preferred to be called, at both Ohio Dominican University, the Josephinum and other institutions and churches, in both the classroom and from the pulpit, inspired generations of English students with his witty insights into the intricacies of the English language - into writing, poetry, literature and theatre and in insights into the life of Jesus Christ and his Christian Church....