philologist

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Once the zeal of republican liberty cooled, 19th-century universities provided homes to such scientists of sacrifice as ethnographers, philologists, sociologists, historians and anthropologists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

While numerous young children and aspiring philologists alike have engaged in the hobby of inventing languages, Frommer is in the unique position of having his heard by millions of people around the world.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2023

The daring of this concept had huge implications for philologists.

From Washington Post

Some scholars in England applied it to the whole family of Indo-European languages but stricter philologists confined its use to one Indo-European branch—Sanskrit, Iranian, and their modern dialects in North India and Persia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jakob Grimm was one of the foremost philologists, I studied his ‘Grimm’s Law’ in prison—all about consonants.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey