Zumpt, KARL, philologist, was born at Berlin, 20th March 1792, studied at Heidelberg and Berlin, and after holding posts in various higher schools became in 1827 extra-ordinary, in 1836 ordinary professor at the university, and died 25th June 1849. His best-known work is the Lateinische Grammatik (1818; 13th ed. by A. W. Zumpt, 1874); also his editions of Curtius (1826 and 1849), Quintilian (1831), Cicero's Verrine Orations (1830; and Commentary, 1831), and De Officiis (1837).
He wrote books on the Roman knights (1839), the numbers of the population in ancient states (1841), the philosophical schools of Athens (1843), the Roman dwelling-houses (1844), Roman Religion (1845), and the legal standing of the Roman citizen (1846).
His nephew, AUGUST ZUMPT, also a distinguished philologist, was born at Königsberg, 4th December 1815, studied at Berlin, lectured in gymnasia there, and died 22d April 1877. He devoted himself especially to Latin epigraphy, and by his studies therein threw great light upon Roman antiquities. See the Life by Padoletti (1878).