philologist

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Angel Castaño, a philologist who lives near the artificial lake and serves as the president of a local cultural association, likens the megalith to a gigantic eye gazing into prehistoric Spain.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2022

“I’m delighted, but I’m obviously biased,” says philologist Patrick Sims-Williams at Aberystwyth University, who backs this idea.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 22, 2021

One of the central researchers in the early years of Antikythera research was German philologist Albert Rehm, the first person to understand the mechanism as a calculating machine.

From Scientific American • Dec. 14, 2021

Coined by philologist Walter William Skeat in 1886, ghost words are often the result of misreadings and typographical errors.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2021

He was a philologist, looking at how language evolves over time.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman