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ZUMPT , the name of two See also:

German classical scholars. KARL GOTTLOB ZUMPT (1792-1894), who was educated at See also:Heidelberg and See also:Berlin, was from 1812 to 1827 a schoolmaster in Berlin, and in 1827 became See also:professor of Latin literature at the university. His See also:chief See also:work was his Lateinische Grancmatik (1818), which stood as a See also:standard work until superseded by See also:Madvig's in 1844. He edited See also:Quintilian's Institutio oratoria (1831), See also:Cicero's Verrines and De officiis (1837), and See also:Curtius. Otherwise he devoted himself mainly to See also:Roman See also:history, See also:publishing Annales veterum regnorum et populorum (3rd ed. 1862), a work in See also:chronology down to A.D. 476, and other antiquarian studies. His See also:nephew, See also:AUGUST WILHELM ZUMPT (1815–1877), studied in Berlin, and in 1851 became professor in the See also:Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium. He is known chiefly in connexion with Latin See also:epigraphy, his papers on which (collected in Commentationes epigraphicae, 2 vols., 1850—54) brought him into conflict with See also:Mommsen in connexion with the preparation of the Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum, a See also:scheme for which, See also:drawn up by Mommsen, was approved in 1847. His See also:works include Monumentum Ancyranum (with See also:Franck, 1847) and De monumento Ancyrano supplendo (1869); Studia See also:Romana (1859); Das Kriminalrecht der rom. Republik (1865–69); Der Kriminalprozess der rom. Republik (1871); See also:editions of Namatianus (1840), Cicero's See also:Pro See also:Murena (1859) and De lege agraria (1861).

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left by him in the 7th and 8th vols. of his Romische Geschichte (1840) .

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