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][2] At the university he gave lectures on exegesis of the New Testament and on Greek and Roman writers.^[3]

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).^[4]
• Lexicon technologiae Latinorum rhetoricae (1797).^[4]
• Cicero's Geist und Kunst (1799–1802).^[1][2]