JOHANN

CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB

See also:

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

ERNESTI (1756–1802)  , German classical scholar, was born at Arnstadt, Thuringia, and studied under his uncle, J . A . Ernesti, at the university of Leipzig . On the 5th of June, 1782, he was made supplementary professor of philosophy at his own university; and on the death of his cousin August Wilhelm in 18oi he was for five months professor of rhetoric . He died on the 5th of June of the following year . His principal works are:—Editions of Aesop's Fabulae (1781); of the Glossae sacrae of Hesychius (1785) and Suidas and Phavorinus (1786); and of Silicas Italicus Punica (1791–1792); Lexicon Technologiae Graecorum rhetoricae (1795) ; Lexicon technologiae Latinorum rhetoricae (1797), and Cicero's Geist and Kunsi (1799–1802) .