Georg Zappert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Hungarian historian
Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1806
Place of Birth: Óbuda-Békásmegyer, Budapest, Hungary
Date of Death: 23-Nov-1859
Profession: historian
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Georg Zappert
- Georg Zappert (7 December 1806 in Óbuda – 23 November 1859 in Vienna) was a Hungarian historian and archaeologist. The son of well-to-do parents, Zappert was educated at the Pest gymnasium and at the University of Vienna.
- He began the study of medicine, but relinquished it after renouncing Judaism for Roman Catholicism 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 Middle Ages. 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 Imperial Academy of Sciences 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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