August Wilhelm Zumpt was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 classical scholar, known chiefly in connection with Latin epigraphy

Epigraphy

Epigraphy Epigraphy Epigraphy (from the , literally "on-writing", is the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing; that is, the science of identifying the graphemes and of classifying their use as to cultural context and date, elucidating their meaning and assessing what conclusions can be...

. He was a nephew of Karl Gottlob Zumpt

Karl Gottlob Zumpt

Karl Gottlob Zumpt was a German philologist from Berlin. Educated at Heidelberg and Berlin, he was from 1812 to 1827 a schoolmaster in Berlin, and in 1827 became professor of Latin literature at the University of Berlin.His chief work was his Lateinische Grammatik , which stood as a standard work...

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Born in Königsberg

Königsberg

Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945 as well as the northernmost and easternmost German city with 286,666 inhabitants . Due to the multicultural society in and around the city, there are several local names for it...

, Zumpt studied in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

, 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

Theodor Mommsen

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist, and writer generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental importance for contemporary research...

 in connexion with the preparation of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum

The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 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 light on all aspects of Roman life and history...

, a scheme for which, drawn up by Mommsen, was approved in 1847. Zumpt died in Berlin.

Works

• Edition of Rutilius Claudius Namatianus
  Rutilius Claudius Namatianus
  Rutilius Claudius Namatianus was a Roman Imperial poet, notable as the author of a Latin poem, De Reditu Suo, in elegiac metre, describing a coastal voyage from Rome to Gaul in 416...
  
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• De Augustalibus et Seviris Augustalibus commentatio epigraphica (1846)
• Monumentum Ancyranum (with Franck, 1847)
• Studio, Romana (1859)
• Das Kriminalrecht der röm. Republik (1865-1869)
• Editions of Cicero
  Cicero
  Marcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief...
  
  's Pro Murena (1859) and De lege agraria (1861)
• De monumento Ancyrano supplendo (1869)
• Der Kriminalprozess der röm. Republik (1871)

Wilhelm Ihne

Wilhelm Ihne

Wilhelm Ihne was a German historian who was a native of Fürth. He was the father of architect Ernst von Ihne ....

incorporated materials left by him in the seventh and eighth volumes of his Römische Geschichte (1840).