Philipp Jakob Scheffauer

In 1780, after studying at the Hohe Karlsschule, he and his fellow student, Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, were appointed Court Sculptors.

[1] During this time, he was also awarded the Order of the Württemberg Crown, which entitled him to use the noble "von".

He is interred at the Hoppenlaufriedhof [de] in Stuttgart, in a tomb designed by his friend, Antonio Isopi.

The tomb of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, at the Christianskirche (Ottensen) [de], is adorned with one of his reliefs; an allegorical depiction of grief.

The Denkmal der Gattenzärtlichkeit und Volksliebe [de] (Monument to the tenderness of the spouse and the love of the people), which was built in 1796 to celebrate the recovery of Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg from a serious illness, contained four large reliefs by Scheffauer.