Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti

Template:Short description Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti (1756 in Arnstadt, Thuringia – 5 June 1802 in Kahnsdorf, near Leipzig), was German classical scholar.

From 1774 to 1777 he studied philosophy, philology and theology at the University of Leipzig, where he was a student of his uncle, Johann August Ernesti. In 1782, he was made an associate professor of philosophy at Leipzig; and following the death of his cousin August Wilhelm Ernesti in 1801, was professor of rhetoric for five months.Template:Sfn<ref name=LE>Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig (biographical sketch)</ref> At the university he gave lectures on exegesis of the New Testament and on Greek and Roman writers.<ref>ADB:Ernesti, Johann Christian Gottlieb In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, S. 242 f.</ref>

His principal works were:

• Editions of Aesop's Fabulae (1781).
• Edition of the Glossae sacrue of Hesychius (1785).
• Editions of Suda and Favorinus (1786).
• Edition of Silius Italicus' Punica (1791–1792).
• Lexicon Technologiae Graecorum rhetoricae (1795).<ref name=LTGR>Digital edition of both lexica</ref>
• Lexicon technologiae Latinorum rhetoricae (1797).<ref name=LTGR/>
• Cicero's Geist und Kunst (1799–1802).Template:Sfn<ref name=LE/>

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