August Wilhelm Zumpt

August Wilhelm Zumpt (1815-1877) was a classical scholar, known chiefly in connexion 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).

From an old 1911 encyclopedia