Editing August Wilhelm Zumpt

{{Short description|German classical scholar}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = August Wilhelm Zumpt
| birth_date = {{birth date|1815|12|04|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Königsberg]], [[Kingdom of Prussia]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1877|04|22|1815|12|04|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Berlin]], [[German Empire]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Berlin]]
| discipline = [[Epigraphy]]
| influences = [[Karl Ferdinand Ranke]]
| workplaces = [[Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium (Berlin)|Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium]]

}}

'''August Wilhelm Zumpt''' (4 December 1815{{snd}}22 April 1877 in [[Berlin]]) was a German classical scholar, known chiefly in connection with Latin [[epigraphy]]. He was a nephew of [[philologist]] [[Karl Gottlob Zumpt]].

Born in [[Königsberg]], Zumpt studied at the [[University of Berlin]] (1832–36). From 1839 to 1851, he was a professor at Friedrich Werder Gymnasium (Berlin), afterwards working as a professor at [[Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium (Berlin)|Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium]] under the direction of [[Karl Ferdinand Ranke]]. He travelled extensively during his career; England (1845, 1860), Italy (1851, 1857, 1864), Greece, Egypt, Palestine and Asia Minor (1871–72).<ref name=DB>[http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Zumpt,_Gottlob#Zumpt.2C_August_Wilhelm Biography of August Wilhelm Zumpt in ADB: Zumpt, Gottlob] @ [[Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie]]</ref>

His papers on epigraphy (collected in "''Commentationes epigraphicae''", 2 vols., 1850, 1854) brought him into conflict with [[Theodor Mommsen]] in connexion with the preparation of the ''[[Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum]]'',<ref name=DB/> a scheme for which, drawn up by Mommsen, was approved in 1847.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Zumpt |volume=28 |page=1056}}</ref>

== Works ==
* Edition of [[Rutilius Claudius Namatianus]], "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 volumes 1850, 1854).    
* ''Das Criminalrecht der römischen Republik'' (two volumes 1865, 1869).
* Editions of [[Cicero]]; "Oratio pro L. Murena" (1859) and "Orationes Tres de lege agraria" (1861).
* "De monumento Ancyrano supplendo commantatio" (1869).
* ''Der Criminalprocess der römischen Republik'' (1871).<ref>[https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22August+Wilhelm+Zumpt%22&gws_rd=ssl Google Search] list of published works.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/De_Reditu_Suo_Libri_Duo.html?id=ZWhHAAAAIAAJ Google Books] De Reditu Suo Libri Duo</ref>

[[Wilhelm Ihne]] incorporated materials left by him in the seventh and eighth volumes of his "''Römische Geschichte''".<ref>[http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/A/Ihne Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon] Wilhelm Ihne</ref>

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[[Category:German classical scholars]]
[[Category:Writers from Königsberg]]
[[Category:Humboldt University of Berlin alumni]]
[[Category:Latin epigraphers]]
[[Category:Scholars from the Kingdom of Prussia]]


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