Jan Kapras (1880 – 1947) was a Czechoslovak jurist and politician.

He authored many works on Bohemian legal history, and substantially influenced the field with his principal work Právní dějiny zemí Koruny české (1913–20).

Representing the National Democratic Party, he was elected senator in 1929 and held that office until 1935.

From 1938 to 39, he was minister of education in the last pre-war Czechoslovakian government, and continued in that office in the German occupation government of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from 1939 to 42.

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