ERNESTI

ernesti, johann christian gottlieb (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 following 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 und kunst_ (1799-1802).