Haupt

A German classical scholar, born at Zittau in Saxony in 1808, and educated at the University of Leipzig under G. Hermann. Later he lectured as a privat-docent at Leipzig, being made extraordinary professor in 1841 and ordinary professor in 1843. In 1848 he was dismissed from his chair as having shared in the revolutionary movements of that year, but in 1853 he was called to Berlin to succeed his friend Lachmann. He died in 1874.

Besides a number of works on Germanic literature and philology, Haupt published Quaestiones Catullianae (1837); a monograph on the Epicedion Drusi (1849); an edition of the Halieuticon and Cynegetica of Grattius and Nemesianus (1838); additions to Lachmann's observations on the Iliad (1847); a recension of Hermann's Bion and Moschus (1849), and of his Aeschylus (1852); an edition of Horace (1851); a school edition of the Metamorphoses of Ovid (1853); a monograph on Calpurnius and Nemesianus (1854); a small text of Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius (1853); an edition of the Germania of Tacitus (1855); of Vergil (1858). His Opuscula were collected and edited by WilamowitzMöllendorff (1876). See an appreciative paper by Prof. Nettleship in his Lectures and Essays (Oxford, 1885).