Johan Munthe Cappelen, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian lawyer and judge
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About Johan Munthe Cappelen
- Johan Munthe Cappelen (May 20, 1884 – October 30, 1962) was a Norwegian legal scholar and judge. Cappelen was born in Oslo, the son of Christen Johan Cappelen (1846–1915) and Jensine Munthe (1857–1932).
- He passed his examen artium in Oslo and became a candidate of law in 1908.
- He established his own legal office in Stavanger in 1915, became a supreme court lawyer in 1920, and was the municipal prosecutor for Stavanger for several years.
- He served as a stipendiary magistrate (byfogd) in Drammen from 1939 to 1945, when he moved to Oslo's Bekkelaget neighborhood, where he was a high court judge on the Eidsivating Court of Appeal and a lawspeaker.
- Among other cases, he involved as a judge with the legal purge in Norway after World War II.
- He is known for having issued the sole dissenting opinion in 1946 in the acquittal of Police Inspector Knut Rød, who was tried for participating in the occupation-era state police actions against Norway's Jewish population.In 1946, Cappelen became the first district judge in Asker and Bærum, where he served until he reached statutory retirement age in 1954.
- After that, he served for a few years as an acting judge for the Eidsivating Court of Appeal. His obituary in Aftenposten on October 31, 1962 closed with the following words: "He was a clear representative of the best in Norwegian civil servant culture and he had friends everywhere." Cappelen was part of the Drammen branch of the Cappelen family.
- He was married twice, first to Borghild Aanensen (with whom he had one daughter), and then to Edith M.
- Heiberg.
- He had two daughters with his second wife, one of whom was the artist Bodil Cappelen, who married the poet Finn Strømsted and then the poet Olav H.
- Hauge.
- All of Cappelen's daughters have descendants living today, with surnames including Thiis, Strømsted, and Endresen.
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