JOHANN See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

AUGUST See also:

• ERNESTI, J
• JOHANN AUGUST ERNESTI (1707-1781)
• ERNESTI, JOHANN CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB (1756–1802)

ERNESTI (1707-1781)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German theologian and philologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 4th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1707, at Tennstadt in Thuringia, of which See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place his See also:

• FATHER

father was pastor, besides being See also:

• SUPERINTENDENT

superintendent of the electoral dioceses of Thuringia, Satz and See also:

• SANGERHAUSEN

Sangerhausen . At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of sixteen he was sent to the celebrated Saxon See also:

• CLOISTER (Lat. claustrum; Fr. cloitre; Ital. chiostro; Span. claustro; Ger. Kloster)

cloister school of See also:

• PFORTA, or SCHULPFORTA

Pforta (Schulpforta) . At twenty he entered the university of See also:

• WITTENBERG

Wittenberg, and studied afterwards at the university of See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig . In 1730 he was made See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master in the See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy . In the following See also:

• YEAR

year he accepted the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of conrector in the See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas school of Leipzig, of which J . M . See also:

• GESNER
• GESNER, ABRAHAM (1797-1864)
• GESNER, JOHANN MATTHIAS (1691—1761)

Gesner was then See also:

• RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, " rule ")

rector, an office to which See also:

• ERNESTI, J
• ERNESTI, JOHANN AUGUST (1707-1781)
• ERNESTI, JOHANN CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB (1756–1802)

Ernesti succeeded in 1734 . He was, in 1742, named See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor extraordinarius of See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient literature in the university of Leipzig, and in 1756 professor ordinarius of See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric . In the same year he received the degree of See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor of See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology, and in 1759 was appointed professor ordinarius in the faculty of theology . Through his learning and his manner of discussion, he co-operated with S . J . See also:

• BAUMGARTEN, ALEXANDER GOTTLIEB (1714-1762)
• BAUMGARTEN, MICHAEL (1812-1889)

Baumgarten of See also:

• HALLE (known as HALLE-AN-DER-SAALE, t0 distinguish it from the small town of Halle in Westphalia)
• HALLE, SIR CHARLES (originally KARL HALLE) (1819-1895)

Halle (1706-1757) in disengaging the current dogmatic theology from its many scholastic and mystical excrescences, and thus paved a way for a revolution in theology .

He died, after a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short illness, in his seventy-See also:

• SIXTH

sixth year, on the ilth of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1781 . It is perhaps as much from the impulse which Ernesti gave to sacred and profane See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism in See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, as from the See also:

• INTRINSIC (through Fr. intrinsique, from Lat. intrinsecus, inwardly; inter, within, secus, following, from root of sequi, to follow)

intrinsic excellence of his own See also:

• WORKS

works in either See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department, that he must derive his reputation as a philologist or theologian . With J . S . See also:

• SEMLER, JOHANN SALOMO (1725-179I)

Semler he co-operated in the revolution of Lutheran theology, and in See also:

• CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with Gesner he instituted a new school in ancient literature . He detected grammatical niceties in Latin, in regard to the consecution of tenses which had escaped preceding critics . His canons are, however, not without exceptions . As an editor of the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• CLASSICS

classics, Ernesti hardly deserves to be named beside his Dutch contemporaries, Tiberius See also:

• HEMSTERHUIS, FRANCOIS (1721-1790)
• HEMSTERHUIS, TIBERIUS (1685-1766)

Hemsterhuis (1685-1766), L . C . Valckenaer (1715-1785), See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David Ruhnken (1723-1798), or his colleague J . J . See also:

• REISKE, JOHANN JACOB (1716-1774)

Reiske (1716-1774) .

The higher criticism was not even attempted by Ernesti .