KAPFF, SIXT KARL: German Protestant; b. at G�glingen (20 m. n.w. of Stuttgart), W�rttemberg, Oct. 22 1805; d. in Stuttgart Sept. 1, 1879. From early childhood he was religiously disposed,
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Kapff combined the genial manners, trustfulness, and sympathetic warmth of the Swabian character. He was a friend to ministers all over W�rttemberg, and attracted all classes who had an interest in religion. As a preacher, he did not represent any sharply defined theological or ecclesiastical tendency. His sermons had much of the supernaturalism of the old T�bingen school, but more warmth and sympathy than belonged to it. He had an eye to the domestic and social wants of his people, and drew largely upon his every-day intercourse with them for his subjects. He also took a warm interest in the ecclesiastical affairs of Wurttemberg, and in foreign missions as advanced by the missionary institution in Basel. For more than a quarter of a century, he was the center of the pious circles of the land.
The best known of his publications are: Gebetbuch (Stuttgart, 1835; 21st ed., 1905); Communionbuch (1840; 24th ed., 1901); Das kleine Communionbuch (1841; 36th ed., 1905); Warnung eines Jugendfreundes (1841; 20th ed., 1902); Achtzig Predigten �ber die alten Episteln (1851; 6th ed., 1879); 83 Predigten �ber die alten Evangelien (1862; 6th ed., 1876); and Casualreden (ed. C. Kapff, 1880).
BIBLIOGRAPHY: C. Kapff, Lebensbild von Sixt Karl Kapff, 2 vols., Stuttgart, 1881 (by his son).
KAPPEL, PEACE OF. See ZWINGLI, HULDREICH.
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