August Wilhelm Zumpt
August Wilhelm Zumpt | |
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| Born | 4 December 1815 Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium |
August Wilhelm Zumpt (4 December 1815 – 22 April 1877 in
philologist Karl Gottlob Zumpt
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Born in
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).[1]
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,[1] a scheme for which, drawn up by Mommsen, was approved in 1847.[2]
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 voumes 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).[3][4]
Wilhelm Ihne incorporated materials left by him in the seventh and eighth volumes of his "Römische Geschichte".[5]
References
- ^ a b Biography of August Wilhelm Zumpt in ADB: Zumpt, Gottlob @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Zumpt". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1056.
- ^ Google Search list of published works.
- ^ Google Books De Reditu Suo Libri Duo
- ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon Wilhelm Ihne
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