August Wilhelm Zumpt - Definition and Overview

August Wilhelm Zumpt (1815-1877) was a classical scholar, known chiefly in connection with Latin epigraphy. He was a nephew of Karl Gottlob Zumpt.

August Wilhelm studied in Berlin, and in 1851 became professor in the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium.

His papers on epigraphy (collected in Commentationes epigraphicae, i vols., 1850-54) brought him into conflict with Theodor Mommsen in connexion with the preparation of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, a scheme for which, drawn up by Mommsen, was approved in 1847.

Works

• edition of Namatianus (1840)
• Monumentum Ancyranum (with Franck, 1847)
• Studio, Romana (1859)
• Das Kriminalrecht der röm. Republik (1865-69)
• editions of Cicero's Pro Murena (1859) and De lege agraria (1861)
• De monumento Ancyrano supplendo (1869)
• Der Kriminalprozess der röm. Republik (1871)

Ihne incorporated materials left by him in the 7th and 8th vols. of his Römische Geschichte (1840).

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.