August Wilhelm Zumpt (4 December 181522 April 1877 in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

) was a German classical scholar, known chiefly in connection with Latin

epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

. He was a nephew of

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

Karl Gottlob Zumpt Karl or Carl Gottlob Zumpt ( la, Carolus Timotheus Zumpt; 20 March 179226 June 1849) was a German classical scholar known for his work in the field of Latin philology. Life Karl Gottlob Zumpt was born at Berlin on 20 March 1792. Educated at Hei ...

. Born in

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named ...

, Zumpt studied at the

University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

(1832–36). From 1839 to 1851, he was a professor at Friedrich Werder Gymnasium (Berlin), afterwards working as a professor at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium under the direction of

Karl Ferdinand Ranke Karl Ferdinand Ranke (26 May 1802, in Wiehe – 29 March 1876, in Berlin) was a German educator and classical philologist. He was the brother of historian Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) and theologians Friedrich Heinrich Ranke (1798–1876) and E ...

. He travelled extensively during his career; England (1845, 1860), Italy (1851, 1857, 1864), Greece, Egypt, Palestine and Asia Minor (1871–72).Biography of August Wilhelm Zumpt in ADB: Zumpt, Gottlob
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His papers on epigraphy (collected in "''Commentationes epigraphicae''", 2 vols., 1850, 1854) brought him into conflict with

Theodor Mommsen Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th cent ...

in connexion with the preparation of the ''

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum The ''Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum'' (''CIL'') is a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions. It forms an authoritative source for documenting the surviving epigraphy of classical antiquity. Public and personal inscriptions throw ...

'', a scheme for which, drawn up by Mommsen, was approved in 1847.

Works

* Edition of

Rutilius Claudius Namatianus Rutilius Claudius Namatianus (fl. 5th century) was a Roman Imperial poet, best known for his Latin poem, ''De reditu suo'', in elegiac metre, describing a coastal voyage from Rome to Gaul in 416. The poem was in two books; the exordium of the first ...

, "De Reditu Suo Libri Duo" (1840). * "De Augustalibus et Seviris Augustalibus commentatio epigraphica" (1846). * "Caesaris Augusti index rerum a se gestarum sive monumentum Ancyranum" (with Johannes Franck, 1845). * "Augusti Wilhelmi Zumptii Commentationum epigraphicarum ad antiquitates Romanas pertinentium" (two voumes 1850, 1854). * ''Das Criminalrecht der römischen Republik'' (two volumes 1865, 1869). * Editions of

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...

; "Oratio pro L. Murena" (1859) and "Orationes Tres de lege agraria" (1861). * "De monumento Ancyrano supplendo commantatio" (1869). * ''Der Criminalprocess der römischen Republik'' (1871).

Wilhelm Ihne Joseph Anton Friedrich Wilhelm Ihne (2 February 1821 – 21 March 1902) was a German historian who was a native of Fürth. He was the father of architect Ernst von Ihne (1848–1917). Life He studied philology at Bonn, obtaining his degree in 184 ...

incorporated materials left by him in the seventh and eighth volumes of his "''Römische Geschichte''".Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
Wilhelm Ihne

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