German classical scholar, 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 the following:—Editions of Æsop’s Fabulae (1781); of the Glossae sacrae of Hesychius (1785) and Suïdas 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).
