Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti

Who was Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti?

Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti, was German classical scholar. He was born at Arnstadt, Thuringia, and studied under his uncle, Johann August Ernesti, at Leipzig University.

On June 5, 1782, he was made supplementary professor of philosophy at his own university; and following the death of his cousin August Wilhelm Ernesti in 1801, was professor of rhetoric for five months.

His principal works are :

Editions of Aesop's Fabulae

Edition of the Glossae sacrue of Hesychius

Editions of Suidas and Favorinus

Edition of Silius Italicus' Punica

Lexicon Technologiae Graecorum rhetoricae

Lexicon technologiae Latinorum rhetoricae

Cicero's Geist und Kunst.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed.. Encyclopædia Britannica. Cambridge University Press.