HAUPT, MORITZ (1808-1874), German philologist, was born at Zittau, in Lusatia, on July 27, 1808. On the close of his university course at Leipzig (183o) he studied Greek, Latin, Ger man, Old French, Provençal and Bohemian. In Sept. 1837 he "ha bilitated" at Leipzig as Privatdozent, and his first lectures, dealing with such diverse subjects as Catullus and the Nibelungenlied, indicated the twofold direction of his labours. He became pro fessor extraordinarius (I841) and then professor ordinarius (1843) of German language and literature. But, having taken part in 1849 with Otto Jahn and Theodor Mommsen in a political agitation for the maintenance of the imperial constitution, Haupt was deprived of his professorship by a decree of April 22, 1851. Two years later, however, he was called to succeed his friend Lachmann at Berlin, and became a member of the Berlin acad emy. He died on Feb. 5, 18 7 4.
Haupt edited texts of Ovid, Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Horace and Virgil. As early as 1836, with Hoffmann von Fallers leben, he started the Altdeutsche Blotter, which in 1841 gave place to the Zeitschri f t f fir deutsches Altertum, of which he con tinued editor till his death. Hartmann von Aue's Erec and his Lieder, Buchlein and Der arnne Heinrich (1842), Rudolf von Ems's tauter Gerhard (184o) and Conrad von Wilrzburg's Engelhard (1844) are the principal German works which he edited. Three volumes of his Opuscula were published at Leipzig See Kirchhoff, "Gedachtnisrede," in Abhandl. der Konigl. Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1875) ; Otto Belger, Moritz Haupt als Lehrer (1879) ; Sandys, Hist. Class. Schol. iii.