Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer was a German jurist and liberal politician. He is best remembered to students of German legal history as the author of Praktische Ausführungen aus allen Teilen der Rechtswissenschaften, Mit Erkenntnissen des Oberappellationsgerichts zu Kassel or "Practical Explanations from all Parts of Jurisprudence, with Findings of the High Court of Appeal in Kassel," and for his years-long rivalry with the Hessian prime minister Ludwig Hassenpflug.
- Occupation
- judge, politician, jurist, opinion journalist
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Born
- May 7, 1777
- Died
- October 4, 1852
