Karl Gottlob Zumpt

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Karl Gottlob Zumpt (sometimes francized in Charles Timothée Zumpt , April 1st 1792 with Berlin - June 25th 1894), German philologist.

It began its studies with the college of Berlin, passed then to Heidelberg, where it followed the courses of Greuzer, and it returned in 1810 to Berlin, where it applied with heat to the study of the old literature while benefitting from the learned lessons of Wolf, of Heindorf and Boeckh. In 1812, it was named professor with the college of Werder, and it showed in these functions an intelligent activity. In 1821, it passed in another college; in 1826, it was in charge of the course of history at the military academy; finally in 1838, he became professor of Roman literature at the university. In 1835, it had gone on a journey in Italy and Greece.

Leaving side the field of the Greek literature turned over in any direction, excavated in its more meticulous recesses by a so great number of German scholars, Zumpt was devoted to deepen what concerned the language and the writers of Rome. Under this report/ratio it rendered the greatest services.

Its Lateinische Grammatik ( Grammar of Latin , 1818, Berlin), reprinted twelve times, is a model of clearness and exactitude which made disappear from Germanic teaching all the former works of the same kind. A summary intended for starting in the same way obtained many editions. It remained a standard in the linguistic field until in 1844 (with that of Johan Nicolai Madvig).

A Choice of pieces for Latin proses , Berlin, 1824, is also a traditional book at the 19th century.

It is especially in its critical editions that Zumpt showed the extent of its knowledge and the clearness of its judgment; it published:

the Institutions oratories of Quintilien, Leipzig, it had already, in 1829, makes appear the fifth book of this work in the edition of Spalding;
Fifth-Curce , 1829 (another edition with extremely important improvements and that one can look like the best of all, Brunswick, 1849);
the Orationes of Cicéron in Verrem (Berlin, 1830, 2 vol. in-8 (text accompanied by abundant and very good comment);
the Of officiis of Cicéron, Brunswick, 1849, work higher than that so precisely estimated Heusinger.

He consigned the fruit of his archaeological and historical research in monographs of an often considerable extent, among which one distinguishes:

Yearly veterum regnorum and populorum, imprimis Bornanorum , Berlin, 1819; second edition, 1838, 3rd edition in 1862, a chronological research task which goes up until into -476;
Decretum municipal Tergestinum , Berlin, 1838;
Of the origin, the form and the jurisdiction of the court of the Centumvirs to Rome , Berlin, 1838;
Of the Roman knights , Berlin, 1839;
Of the population and its increase in antiquity , Berlin, 1841;
Of the schools of philosophy to Athens , Berlin, 1843;
Of the civil architecture of the Romans , Berlin, 1851;
Religion of the Romans , Berlin, 1845.

These various writings are in German language.

We leave side a great number of monographs and memories inserted in the Acts of the Academy of Science of Berlin (Zumpt had been allowed in 1835 in this erudite company), and we do not speak about many editions intended for the schools.

This scholar died the June 25th 1849, whereas it took water with Karlovy Vary. He is the uncle of August Wilhelm Zumpt.

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