Gerhard Ficker

Gerhard Ficker (born February 8, 1865 in Thonberg , † April 4, 1934 in Kiel ) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian .

Life

Ficker was a son of Pastor Julius Gustav Ficker (1826–1899); his older brother Johannes also became a theology professor, the younger brother Martin professor of hygiene and bacteriology . Gerhard Ficker studied art history, cultural history and theology in Leipzig from 1884 and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. After a study trip to Vienna and Rome financed by the German Archaeological Institute , he first became an assistant chaplain and then a pastor in Sohland on the Spree in 1892 . In 1893 he obtained his theological license in Halle an der Saale and has taught there as a private lecturer ever since. In 1902 he was appointed titular professor for church history, in 1903 associate professor . From 1906 to 1926 he was a full professor for church history in Kiel . There he officiated as rector of the university in 1914/15 and twice as dean of the theological faculty.

Fonts (selection)

• The mitralis of Sicardus according to its importance for the iconography of the Middle Ages . Leipzig 1889.
• Studies on the Hippolyte Question . Leipzig 1893, OCLC 17193612 .
• Amphilochiana . Leipzig 1906, OCLC 31247959 .
• The Phundagiagites. A contribution to the heretic history of the Byzantine Middle Ages . Leipzig 1908, OCLC 13615455 .

literature

• Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, p. 75, ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 .

Web links

• Works by and about Gerhard Ficker  in the German Digital Library
• Portrait and biography on the website of the Kiel directory of scholars
• Entry on Gerhard Ficker in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
• Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography