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ERNESTI, JOHANN AUGUST (1707-1781), German theologian and philologist, was born on the 4th of August 1707, at Tennstadt in Thuringia, of which place his father was pastor, besides being superintendent of the electoral dioceses of Thuringia, Salz and Sangerhaus ...

ERNESTI. JOHANN CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB (1756-1802), German classical scholar, was born at Arnstadt, Thuringia, and studied under his uncle, J. A. Ernest i, at the university of Leipzig. On the 5th of June, 1782, he was made supplementary professor of philosophy at ...

... 1440, and in the partition of 1485 formed part of the territories given to the Ernestine line. It was a separate Saxon 'duchy from 1596 to 1638, from 1640 EISENBERG— EISTEDDFOD to 1644, and again from 1662 to 1741, when it finally fell to SaxeWeimar. The town ...

... influence mainly determined his theological position and line of work was J. A. Ernesti. Teller's writings present rationalism in its course of development from biblical supernaturalism to the borders of deistical naturalism. His first learned production was a ...