Karl Gottlob Zumpt

Karl Gottlob Zumpt ( born March 20, 1792 in Berlin, † June 26, 1849 in Karlsbad ) was a German classical scholar.

After his studies in Heidelberg and Berlin Zumpt was Dr. phil. doctorate and taught until 1821 at the Friedrich Werder Gymnasium in Berlin. In 1825 he became a professor at the Joachimsthal high school in 1826 at the same time teacher of history at the Berlin Military Academy. A professor at the University of Kiel (1826 ) he refused. 1827 was followed by a call to the local university, where he was associate and full professor of classical philology since 1836 since 1827. Since 1835 Zumpt was also a regular member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

He wrote, among other things, the "Latin Grammar" (1818 ), which was launched more than once.

Zumpts Latin grammar, which appeared first time in 1818, contains many mnemonic that should facilitate the students learning the difficult grammatical rules. The irregular masculines of the Latin third declension he summarizes, for example, in the following verses:

"Information 's: Thirty-nine to one is / Are masculini generis: / Axis, amnis, callis, anguis / Cassis, COSSIS atque sanguis, / Cenchris, caulis et canalis / Lapis, fustis et sodalis, / Ignis cinis, funis, glis / Orbis, panis, cucuinis, [ ... ] "

An aftereffect of these sonorous poetry is found in the chemical didactic poems Emil Jacobsen, who in the preface to his rhyming writing The Reactionary in Your Pocket ( 7th edition, Breslau, 1862) Karl Gottlob Zumpt called as stimulators. In Jacobsen's signature The wonders of Uroscopie, or Zumptuarium uropoëticum (Breslau, 1861) Zumpt is even mentioned in the title.