Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti
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Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti (1756 - June 5, 1802), German classical scholar, was born at Arnstadt, Thuringia, and studied under his uncle, JA Ernesti, at the university of Leipzig.
On June 5, 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.
His principal works are :
- Editions of Aesop's Fabulae (1781)
- Edition of the Glossae sacrue of Hesychius (1785)
- Editions of Suidas and Phavorinus (1786)
- Edition of Silius Italicus' Punica (1791-1792)
- Lexicon Technologiae Graecorum rhetoricae (1795)
- Lexicon technologiae Latinorum rhetoricae (1797)
- Cicero's Geist und Kunst (1799-1802).
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