Wikipedia credits Trygve Reenskaug with inventing the term "model-view-controller", he was a Smalltalk guy with Xerox at that time - I don't think there's any relation in the origin of that terminology to the notion of a "database view" - otherwise not sure what you're referring to here (here's a link to the original paper: http://st-www.cs.illinois.edu/users/smarch/st-docs/mvc.html)
Wikipedia credits Trygve Reenskaug with inventing the term "model-view-controller", he was a Smalltalk guy with Xerox at that time - I don't think there's any relation in the origin of that terminology to the notion of a "database view" - otherwise not sure what you're referring to here (here's a link to the original paper: http://st-www.cs.illinois.edu/users/smarch/st-docs/mvc.html)