Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti

Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti (1756 – June 5, 1802), was German classical scholar. He was born at Arnstadt, Thuringia, and studied under his uncle, Johann August Ernesti, at Leipzig University.

On June 5, 1782, he was made supplementary professor of philosophy at his own university; and following the death of his cousin August Wilhelm Ernesti in 1801, was professor of rhetoric for five months.

His principal works are :

• Editions of Aesop's Fabulae (1781)
• Edition of the Glossae sacrue of Hesychius (1785)
• Editions of Suidas and Favorinus (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).

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.