FICKER, KASPAR JULIUS, von. — Jurist and historian, b. in Paderborn on 30 April 1826, d. in Innsbruck on 10 July 1902. He studied at Bonn, Münster, and Berlin, and from 1852 was professor of general history at Innsbruck, where in 1863 he began teaching in the faculty of law. In 1866 he was appointed a member of the Academy of Vienna.
In opposition to Sybel, in his works Das deutsche Kaiserreich in seinen universalen und nationalen Beziehungen (Innsbruck 1861) and Deutsches Königtum und Kaisertum (ibid. 1862), he defended the position of the Grossdeutschen, that is, the pan-Germanic and universalist conception of the function of the Holy Roman Empire.
Other works of great importance are the Untersuchungen zur Rechtsgeschichte (ibid. 1894–97), the Forschungen zur Reichs- und Rechtsgeschichte Italiens (ibid. 1864–74), and the continuation of Boehmer’s Regesta Imperii (ibid. 1879–1901).