Ernest Gottlieb Sihler was a Professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

. Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Fort Wayne, Indiana

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, he was the son of Lutheran missionary Wilhelm Sihler

Wilhelm Sihler

Wilhelm Sihler was a German American Lutheran minister. A proponent for Christian education, Wilhelm Sihler founded Concordia Theological Seminary, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.-Biography:...

 and great-uncle to Andrew Sihler

Andrew Sihler

Andrew Littleton Sihler is an American linguist and comparative Indo-Europeanist.Sihler received his Bachelor of Arts cum laude in 1962 from Harvard College, where he studied Germanic languages, literature, and linguistics. He earned his Master of Arts from Yale in 1965...

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Sihler's professional name was Ernest G. Sihler, but within the Sihler family he was always known as Gottlieb. Not long after leaving Concordia College

Concordia University Wisconsin

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 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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, for the post at Johns Hopkins, he endowed a library fund there for the purchase of "books of standard value" (i.e., presumably excluding rare books, incunabula, and so on).

Major works

• Cicero of Arpinum: A Political and Literary Biography Being a Contribution to the History of Ancient Civilization and a Guide to the Study of Cicero
• A Complete Lexicon of the Latinity of Caesar's Gallic War
• From Maumee to Thames and Tiber: The Life Story of an American Classical Scholar (autobiography)
• Testimonium Animae
• Caesar's Annales, Critical Edition