philologer

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No sane ethnologist or philologer will insist that all these conceptions are related genetically, that there is nothing accidental in the repetition of the idea.

From Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea by Bloomfield, Maurice

When a Western philologer asserts that writing did not exist before a certain period, we assume that he has some approximate certitude as to its real invention.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

In his more recent paper Mr. Pengelly has given up this position, and he considers it improbable that any philologer could now give a trustworthy translation of a language spoken 20,000 years ago.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

But Borrow, though an extraordinary linguist, was a somewhat unchastened philologer, and the results of his life-long philological studies appear to much better advantage from the literary than from the scientific point of view.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George

Abu Othman Bakr bin Muhammad bin Habib al-Mayini, briefly called Abu Othman, was celebrated as a philologer and grammarian, as also for his knowledge in general literature.

From Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature by Arbuthnot, F. F.