Background
Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti was born in 1756 in Arnstadt, Thuringia, Germany.
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Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti
Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti was German classical scholar.
Education
Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti studied under his uncle, Johann August Ernesti, at the university of Leipzig.
Career
On the 5th of June, 1782, Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti 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); 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).
Achievements
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Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti is remembered mostly for his Editions of Aesop's Fabulae.
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Nationality
Germany