Ernestine Christine Reiske

Ernestine Christine Reiske (2 April 1735 – 27 July 1798) was a German translator of classical texts.

[2] Ernestine Christine Reiske was born as Ernestine Christine Müller on 2 April 1735 at Kemberg in Wittenberg district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

As her family couldn't afford the education of all the children, the sons were given the opportunity to learn.

[4] In 1764 she married Johann Jakob Reiske (1716 – 1774), the distinguished classicist and orientalist, who was the professor of Arabic studies at Leipzig University.

[8] She also published two volumes of her own, which mainly contained the works by Libanius, Xenophon, Epictetus, and others.