Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti


Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti, 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. At the university he gave lectures on exegesis of the New Testament and on Greek and Roman writers.
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