Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti

Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti (1756 in Arnstadt, Thuringia – 5 June 1802 in Kahnsdorf, near Leipzig), was German classical scholar.

From 1774 to 1777 he studied philosophy, philology and theology at the University of Leipzig, where he was a student of his uncle, Johann August Ernesti. In 1782, he was made an associate professor of philosophy at Leipzig; and following the death of his cousin August Wilhelm Ernesti in 1801, was professor of rhetoric for five months.[1] At the university he gave lectures on exegesis of the New Testament and on Greek and Roman writers.[2]

His principal works are :

  • Editions of Aesop's Fabulae (1781).
  • Edition of the Glossae sacrue of Hesychius (1785).
  • Editions of Suda and Favorinus (1786).
  • Edition of Silius Italicus' Punica (1791–1792).
  • Lexicon Technologiae Graecorum rhetoricae (1795).[3]
  • Lexicon technologiae Latinorum rhetoricae (1797).[3]
  • Cicero's Geist und Kunst (1799–1802).[1]

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ernesti, Johann Christian Gottlieb". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 753.

  1. Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig (biographical sketch)
  2. ADB:Ernesti, Johann Christian Gottlieb In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, S. 242 f.
  3. Digital edition of both lexica
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