Lectionary Calendar
Friday, November 22nd, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
Attention!
Tired of seeing ads while studying? Now you can enjoy an "Ads Free" version of the site for as little as 10¢ a day and support a great cause!
Click here to learn more!

Bible Encyclopedias
Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

Search for…
Resource Toolbox

JOHANN CHRISTIAN GOTTLIEB ERNESTI (1756-1802), German classical scholar, was born at Arnstadt, Thuringia, and studied under his uncle, J. A. Ernesti, 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 5th of June of the same year.

His principal works are: - Editions of Aesop's Fabulae (1781); of the Glossae sacrae of Hesychius (1785) and Suidas and Phavorinus (1786); and of Silius Italicus Punica (1791-1792); Lexicon Technologiae Graecorum rhetoricae (1795); Lexicon technologiae Latinorum rhetoricae (1797), and Cicero's Geist and Kunst (1799-1802).

Bibliography Information
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​j/johann-christian-gottlieb-ernesti.html. 1910.
 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile