August Wilhelm Zumpt (
1815-
1877),
nephew[?] of
Karl Gottlob Zumpt, studied in
Berlin, and in 1851 became professor in the Friedrich Wilhelm
Gymnasium. He is known chiefly in connexion with Latin epigraphy, his papers on which (collected in
Commentationes epigraphicae, i vols., 1850-54) brought him into conflict with
Mommsen in connexion with the preparation of the
Corpus inscriptionum Latinum, a scheme for which, drawn up by Mommsen, was approved in 1847. His works include
Monumentwm Ancyranum (with Franck, 1847) and
De monumento Ancyrano supplendo (1869); Studio, Romana (1859);
Das Kriminalrecht der röm. Republik (1865-69);
Der Kriminalprozess der röm. Republik (1871); editions of Namatianus (1840), Cicero's
Pro Murena (1859) and
De lege agraria (1861). Ihne incorporated materials left by him in the 7th and 8th vols. of his
Römische Geschichte (1840).
- From an old 1911 encyclopedia