(Lat. Bornitius), JOHANN ERNST, a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born at Meissen, in Saxony, April 12, 1622. He studied at Wittenberg, and died Nov. 14, 1645. He is the author of De Characterum Judaicorum Antiquitate (Wittenberg, 1643): — Exercit. Philol. ad c. iv Genes. Comrm. Ult. (ibid. eod.): De מיתות s. Suppliciis Capitalibus Ebrceorum (ibid. eod.): — De Synedrio Magno Hebreorum (ibid. 1644): — De Crucenum Ebrceorum Suppliciumn Fuerit et Qualisnam Structura ejus cui Salvaltor Mundi fuit Afixus (ibid. eod.): — De Tikkun Sophrim (ibid. eod.). See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B. P.)