Fikenscher, Karl Christoph Christian

Fikenscher, Karl Christoph Christian a Lutheran theologian of Germany, born at Culmbach, November 30, 1798, became pastor of St. Sebaldus at Nuremberg, and died in 1858. Besides a number of sermons, he published, Geschichte des Reichstags zu Augsbug in Jahre 1530 (Nuremberg, 1830): — Biblisch-Paraktische Auslegung des Evangelium Johannis (ibid. 1831-34, 3 volumes): — Die Protestantische Kirche gegen Herrn Weihbischof-Wittmann in Regensburg vertheidigt (ibid. 1832). See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 1:357 sq.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:752; 2:23, No. 135, 155, 307. (B.P.)