Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti Explained

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 were:

• 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]

Notes and References

1. https://www.uni-leipzig.de/unigeschichte/professorenkatalog/leipzig/Ernesti_1345.pdf Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
2. https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Ernesti,_Johann_Christian_Gottlieb ADB:Ernesti, Johann Christian Gottlieb
3. https://www.leshecatonchires.com/Ernesti_Lexica.html#Titulus Digital edition of both lexica