Georg Zappert (7 December 1806 in

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– 23 November 1859 in

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) was a Hungarian historian and archaeologist. The son of well-to-do parents, Zappert was educated at the Pest gymnasium and the

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. He began the study of medicine, but relinquished it after renouncing Judaism for

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in 1829, then taking up theology. This too he was forced to abandon in the second year, owing to deafness caused by a severe illness; and after this disappointment, which he felt keenly, he devoted himself to what became his life work, namely, the study of the

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. He led a retired life in Vienna. He foretold the time of his death to the minute three days before it occurred; there have been in his family several cases of similar premonition. The

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elected him corresponding member on July 28, 1851. Zappert published: "Gravure en Bois du XII. Siècle" (Vienna, 1837 et seq.); "Vita B. Petri Acotanti" (ib. 1839); and the following memoirs: "Ueber Antiquitätenfunde im Mittelalter" (in "Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften," Nov., 1850); "Epiphania, ein Beitrag zur-Christlichen Kunstarchäologie" (ib. xxi. 291-372); "Ueber Badewesen in Mittelalterlicher und Späterer Zeit" (in "Archiv für Kunde Oesterreichischer Geschichtsquellen," xxi. 5); "Ueber Sogenannte Verbrüderungsbücher in Nekrologien im Mittelalter" (in "Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften," x. 417-463, xi. 5-183); "Ueber ein für den Jugendunterricht des Kaisers Max I. Abgefasstes Lateinisches Gesprächsbüchlein" (ib. xxviii. 193-280); etc.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Zappert, George 1806 births 1859 deaths Hungarian Jews 19th-century Hungarian historians Historians from the Austrian Empire 19th-century archaeologists

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