FICKER, PAUL JOHANNES: German Protestant; b. at Leipsic-Neureudnitz Nov. 12, 1861. He studied at Leipsic (1880-84; Ph.D., 1886) and the theological seminary of St. Paul's there (1884-86), and after travels in Italy and Spain became privat-docent for church history at Halle in 1890. In 1892 he was appointed associate professor of the same subject at Strasburg and full professor in 1900. He has edited the Archäologische Studien zum christlichen Altertum und Mittelalter (1897-99) and Studien über christliche Denkmäler (since 1902), and has written Die Darstellung der Apostel in der altchristlichen Kunst (Leipsic, 1887); Die altchristlichen Bildwerke im christlichen Museum des Laterans (1889); Die Konfutation des Augsburgischen Bekenntnisses (1891); Handschriftenproben des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts nach Strassburger Originalen (2 vols., Strasburg, 1902-05; in collaboration with O. Winckelmann); and Evangelischer Kirchenbau (Leipsic, 1905).