Haupt, MORITZ

Haupt, MORITZ, a Germanist and classical scholar, was born at Zittau, 27th July 1808, was professor at Leipzig from 1843 to 1850, and from 1853 in Berlin. He was secretary to the academy there, and died 5th February 1874. He edited several Latin classics (Ovid, Horace, &c.), and many Middle High German poems.