Ernesti, Johann Christian Gottlieb

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 his own university; and on the death of his cousin August Wilhelm in 1801 he was for five months professor of rhetoric. He died on the sth of June of the following year. His principal works are: — Editions of Aesop's Fabulae (1781); of the Glonae tacrae of Hesychius (1785) and Suidas and Phavorinus (1786); and of Silius Italic us Punica (1791-1792); Lexicon Technologist Graecorum rketoricae (1795); Lexicon ttchnologiae Latinorum rhetoricat (1797), and Cicero's Geist und Kunst (1799-1803).