Sixt Jakob von Kapff (lawyer)

Sixt Jakob von Kapff in the Tübingen professors' gallery

Sixt Jakob Kapff , from 1806 von Kapff , (born December 28, 1735 in Plüderhausen , † November 18, 1821 in Tübingen ) was a German lawyer.

Live and act

Sixt Jakob Kapff studied philosophy and legal scholarship in Tübingen, passed the legal exam with great success in 1757, and received his teaching license ( venia legendi ) through his treatise De regali marmoris jure . His lectures, which he gave as a private lecturer, were popular with people. In 1761 he was appointed associate professor and in August 1767 full professor of legal scholarship. He turned down several offers to enter foreign services. In 1806 he was appointed director of the royal high tribunal, which took the place of the former court court, to which he had belonged since 1757 as a lawyer and since 1765 as assessor and headmaster. When the Upper Tribunal was relocated from Tübingen to Stuttgart at the end of 1817, he was honored to retire.

Honors

On November 6, 1806, Sixt Jakob Kapff was awarded the commentary cross of the Württemberg Civil Merit Order and the associated personal, non-inheritable nobility .

family

Sixt Jakob von Kapff was a son of the pastor Johann Melchior Kapff, pastor in Plüderhausen, and the Euphrosine Katharine nee. Cotta. In July 1768 he married Elisabeth geb. Then. One son, Sixt Jakob Friedrich (born July 28, 1769) was born out of the marriage, but died of emaciation on September 24, 1789.

Works

• De transactione imperata (1761)
• Investigation into the question of whether the peat belongs to the regalia (1767)
• De fundamento communionis bonorum conjugalis germanicae (1789)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Manual 1815 , p. 34

swell

• Theodor Schott:  Kapff, Sixt Jakob von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 99.