HAUPT, MORITZ (18081874)

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HAUPT, MORITZ (18081874) , German philologist, was born at Zittau, in Lusatia, on the 27th of July 18o8. His early education was mainly conducted by his father, Ernst

Friedrich

FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

Haupt, burgomaster of Zittau, a man of good scholarly attainment, who used to take pleasure in turning German hymns or Goethe's poems into Latin, and whose memoranda were employed by G.

Freytag

FREYTAG, GEORG
FREYTAG, GUSTAV (1816–1895)

in the 4th volume of his Bilder arts der deutschen Vergangenheit. From the Zittau gymnasium, where he spent the five years 18211826, Haupt removed to the university of

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

with the intention of studying theology; but the natural bent of his mind and the influence of Professor G. Hermann soon turned all his energies in the direction of philosophy. On the close of his university course (1830) he returned to his father's

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, and the next seven years were devoted to quiet

work

WORK

, not only at Greek, Latin and German, but at Old French, Provencal and Bohemian. He formed with Lachmann at Berlin a friendship which had

great

GREAT

effect on his intellectual development. In September 18J7 he " habilitated " at

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

as Privatdozent,von Fallersleben, he started the Altdeutsche Blotter, which in 1841 gave place to the Zeitschrift fiir deutsches Altertum, of which he continued editor till his death. Hartmann von Aue's Erec (1839) and his Lieder, Biichlein and Der arme Heinrich (1842), Rudolf von Ems's Gisler Gerhard (184o) and

Conrad

von Wurzburg's Engelhard (1844) are the principal German works which he edited. To form a collection of the French songs of the 16th century was one of his favourite schemes, but a little volume published after his death, Franzosische Volkslieder (1877), is the only

monument

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

of his labours in that direction. Three volumes of his Opuscula were published at Leipzig (18751877).
See

Kirchhoff

, " Gedachtnisrcde," in Abhandl. der Konigl. Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1875) ; Otto Belger, Moritz Haupt als Lehrer (1879) ; Sandys, Ilist. Class. Schol. iii. (1908).

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