KAPP, Friedrich, a German author, born in
Hamm, Westphalia, April 13, 1824. He studied
law, and in consequence of the revolution of
1848 went in 1850 to New York, where he
practised his profession, attached himself to
the republican party, became a presidential
elector in 1860, and subsequently was commissioner
of emigration. He returned to Germany
in 1870, and was elected in 1872 to the
Reichstag. He has published Die Sklavenfrage
in den Vereinigten Staaten (Göttingen, 1854); Leben des amerikanischen Generals F. W. von Steuben (Berlin, 1858; English ed., New York, 1859); Geschichte der Sklaverei in den Vereinigten Staaten (Hamburg, 1860); Leben des amerikanischen Generals Johann Kalb (Stuttgart, 1862; English ed., New York, 1870); Der Soldatenhandel deutscher Fürsten nach Amerika (Berlin, 1864; 2d revised and enlarged ed., 1874); Geschichte der deutschen Auswanderung in Amerika, (vol. i., Leipsic, 1868); and Friedrich der Grosse und die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (1871).
