August Wilhelm Zumpt
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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)
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