What is "philologist"

Usage examples of "philologist".

Spanish olla--a hotchpotch of the jockey tramper, philologist, and missionary.

Friedrich August Wolf, for example, the great German philologist, was probably the most inspiring teacher of classical languages that Germany has had.

We usually think of a philologist as one who digs among the roots of dead languages, who worships the forms of speech and the laws of grammar.

The reason he was such a great philologist was because he was so great a realist, a man who was intensely interested in the Greek people, their history and life.

Almost without exception, every Orientalist began his career as a philologist, and the revolution in philology that produced Bopp, Sacy, Burnouf, and their students was a comparative science based on the premise that languages belong to families, of which the Indo-European and the Semitic are two great instances.

Friedrich August Wolf of 1777 and the Friedrich Nietzsche of 1875 there is Ernest Renan, an Oriental philologist, also a man with a complex and interesting sense of the way philology and modern culture are involved in each other.

What did not persist in Renan during the 1840s, when he served his apprenticeship as a philologist, was the dramatic attitude: that was replaced by the scientific attitude.

Therefore the philologist must make a given linguistic fact correspond in some way to a historical period: hence the possibility of a classification.

So on the one hand there is the organic, biologically generative process represented by Indo-European, while on the other there is an inorganic, essentially un-regenerative process, ossified into Semitic: most important, Renan makes it absolutely clear that such an imperious judgment is made by the Oriental philologist in his laboratory, for distinctions of the kind he has been concerned with are neither possible nor available for anyone except the trained professional.

The great philologist and grammarian, Al-Jahiz, said of the book of Sibawaih, that none like it had ever been written on grammar, and that all writers on this subject who had succeeded him had borrowed from it.

Abu Ali Muhammad bin-al Mustanir bin Ahmad, generally known by the name of Kutrub, was also a grammarian and philologist, and wrote books and treatises on these subjects, as also on natural history.

Abu Zaid al-Ansari was a philologist and grammarian, and a contemporary of the two persons just described.

Abul Aina was a philologist, but also a great joker, anecdote-teller, and poet.

Mention must also be made of Abdullah bin Muslim bin Kutaiba, who was a philologist and grammarian of eminent talent, and noted for the correctness of his information.

He was held to be of the first authority as a philologist, a genealogist, and a relator of the poems and battle-lays of the desert Arabs.